On 22/10/2023 22:05, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
> Completely OT. It runs on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and also - probably
> least important -  on Linux.
Fortunately, Valve doesn't agree!
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On 2023-10-28 13:54, Robert wrote:
> On 22/10/2023 22:05, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
>
>> Completely OT. It runs on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and also -
>> probably least important -  on Linux.
>
> Fortunately, Valve doesn't agree!
>
https://video.hardlimit.com/w/uZGK12oU5FeSsy8CDLP4hD

Linux vs Windows tested in 10 games - Linux 17% faster on Average

:-)

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On 28.10.23 13:54, Robert wrote:
> On 22/10/2023 22:05, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
>
>> Completely OT. It runs on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and also - probably
>> least important -  on Linux.
>
> Fortunately, Valve doesn't agree!

In this case: Thank you. You make my case that this topic is totally OT
in this group.

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On 2023-10-28, Carlos E. R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> On 2023-10-28 13:54, Robert wrote:
>> On 22/10/2023 22:05, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
>>
>>> Completely OT. It runs on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and also -
>>> probably least important -  on Linux.
>>
>> Fortunately, Valve doesn't agree!
>>
> https://video.hardlimit.com/w/uZGK12oU5FeSsy8CDLP4hD
>
> Linux vs Windows tested in 10 games - Linux 17% faster on Average
>
>:-)
>

I agree with this, specially supported proton games

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On 10/23/23 21:28, candycanearter07 wrote:
> On 10/23/23 16:05, vallor wrote:
>> The steam process itself takes up about 500MB of RSS.  "steamwebhelper"
>> gets a little crazy, though.
>
> That would probably explain it.

Yeah, it's steamwebhelper. It seems to have some kind of memory issues,
since it's taking up 30% of CPU and 20% of my memory..
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On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 19:13:30 -0500, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote
in <uhk83a$3hk6g$2@dont-email.me>:

> On 10/23/23 21:28, candycanearter07 wrote:
>> On 10/23/23 16:05, vallor wrote:
>>> The steam process itself takes up about 500MB of RSS. 
>>> "steamwebhelper"
>>> gets a little crazy, though.
>>
>> That would probably explain it.
>
> Yeah, it's steamwebhelper. It seems to have some kind of memory issues,
> since it's taking up 30% of CPU and 20% of my memory..

How much RAM do you have?

Also, you can use system tools to (try to) figure out
what a process is up to:

man strace

"strace - trace system calls and signals"

So if you have a process (say) 2054098, you could try:

$ strace -p 2054098

(Note that this will spew a bunch of syscalls and signals to
your screen if you run it on the process in question. So
be ready with ctrl-c. ;) )

I did this on my own system, and found the steamwebhelper
process to be running a polling loop, with occasional
reads from /proc/2054098/status. Some kind of supervisor
for the web browser threads? (Beats me.)

top says it's using 2% CPU. However, this is my CPU:

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core Processor

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On 10/28/23 20:11, vallor wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 19:13:30 -0500, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote
> in <uhk83a$3hk6g$2@dont-email.me>:
>
>> On 10/23/23 21:28, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>> On 10/23/23 16:05, vallor wrote:
>>>> The steam process itself takes up about 500MB of RSS.
>>>> "steamwebhelper"
>>>> gets a little crazy, though.
>>>
>>> That would probably explain it.
>>
>> Yeah, it's steamwebhelper. It seems to have some kind of memory issues,
>> since it's taking up 30% of CPU and 20% of my memory..
>
> How much RAM do you have?

16GB + 8GB swap file

> Also, you can use system tools to (try to) figure out
> what a process is up to:
>
> man strace
>
> "strace - trace system calls and signals"
>
> So if you have a process (say) 2054098, you could try:
>
> $ strace -p 2054098
>
> (Note that this will spew a bunch of syscalls and signals to
> your screen if you run it on the process in question. So
> be ready with ctrl-c. ;) )
>

or pipe to less :)

> I did this on my own system, and found the steamwebhelper
> process to be running a polling loop, with occasional
> reads from /proc/2054098/status. Some kind of supervisor
> for the web browser threads? (Beats me.)
>
> top says it's using 2% CPU. However, this is my CPU:
>
> AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core Processor
>

Pretty cool CPU!
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On 2023-10-29 07:06, candycanearter07 wrote:
> On 10/28/23 20:11, vallor wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 19:13:30 -0500, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net>
>> wrote
>> in <uhk83a$3hk6g$2@dont-email.me>:

>> Also, you can use system tools to (try to) figure out
>> what a process is up to:
>>
>> man strace
>>
>> "strace - trace system calls and signals"
>>
>> So if you have a process (say) 2054098, you could try:
>>
>> $ strace -p 2054098
>>
>> (Note that this will spew a bunch of syscalls and signals to
>> your screen if you run it on the process in question.  So
>> be ready with ctrl-c. ;)  )
>>
>
> or pipe to less :)

-o file

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