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Zoom is using <10% CPU on Windows and 125% CPU on Linux. Why :/

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  • 4
    Random stuff on Linux, discord uses around 80% on mine but on windows around 5%.

    Just Linux bring Linux.
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    You may also notice it won't shut down properly and keeps spinning after ending calls, the background threads keep running and the UI can't be restarted. My zshrc has a "killzoom" function which just pkills it.

    Bear in mind though, windows perf monitot reports cpu usage differently than *nix tools, so that's part of it as well.

    https://unix.stackexchange.com/ques...

    They don't put any effort into it because of small userbase.
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    @eptsousa
    Discord seems to behave better on my systems
  • 0
    @SortOfTested lucky you, maybe is a Debian distros thing.
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    @eptsousa
    Have you tried both the .Deb and flatpak distributions?
  • 0
    haven't tried the flatpak, maybe one last try.
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    Only during calls or always?
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    @sbiewald only during calls, the rest of the time it's fine.
  • 2
    How many cores do you have? 10% overall usage on my desktop would be 160% as I have 16 cores/threads
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    @guitargirl15 probably a software vs hardware decoding issue.
    Windows might have better drivers for your video card to allow Zoom to offload some tasks to the GPU.
  • 0
    @kwilliams exactly what I was thinking with those numbers. Though I don't think it's a driver issues but application not using it. Chromium based browsers suck at Intel based gpu for example. Firefox no issue.
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    @eptsousa Isn't Discord based on electron? Which should make this less of an issue??
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    @JFK422 I think precisely the whole problem is electron IMO, but yeah I’ve tried in a few Debian based distros and no luck, maybe my hardware is a problem which wouldn’t be the first time.
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