Phone performance

2015-08-14 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Hi all, In testing performance optimisations on various phones, I keep running into an annoying hurdle. Although you can optimise your Mir server/clients in such a way that they're smoother more often, there's an additional variable outside of Mir and Unity that gets in the way. That seems t

Re: Phone performance

2015-08-14 Thread Daniel van Vugt
It's not just frequency either. On arale (Meizu) for example, smoothness correlates directly with whether multiple CPU cores are online or not: cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/online Usually the kernel only keeps one core online, which makes Unity8 stutter. But if you touch it enough then the se

Re: Phone performance

2015-08-14 Thread Alberto Aguirre
That will also be the result of the scaling governor. I was surprised too that arale (Meizu) only has an interactive governor available. It's quite hard to measure performance consistently and effectively with such a governor (specially for comparison purposes). >I'm more concerned about how can w