High CPU Usage
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Alexander von Franqué
When screen sharing, the CPU usage is super high (macOS 10.15.6, Desktop App). So much so, that the computer freezes up. Please reduce CPU usage.
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David Lindskog Hedstrom
I'm still experiencing high CPU usage up to the point that I need to stop sharing my screen
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Julian Pustkuchen
Same in windows, on an i7 Pop eats up 50% CPU and RAM.
J Sherwani (Pop Team)
Andrew Jackman (and anyone else experiencing this), could you please find a time to debug this live via https://calendly.com/j-pop/debug-session? We aren't able to reproduce such high CPU usage on our end, so being able to see it on your end and test its response to changing bandwidth / frame rate would enable us to understand the root cause and solve it.
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Andrew Jackman
I have the same issue. When screen sharing, kernel_task can exceed 1000%! It totally kills my ability to compile the code (Kotlin in IntelliJ). I'm currently using Tuple when pairing with Mac users, and have given up sharing my screen using Pop when pairing with non-mac colleagues because it is un-useable. I have a 5k LG display connected, which I share, but I have unchecked the "Use full resolution" option in advanced preferences.
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Woncheol Jeong
I am also still experiencing this issue. I am using a 2.6 GHZ 6 core i7 macbook pro 2019 on MacOS 10.15.7, with an external monitor running at a resolution of 1920x1080.
1) When participants draw / control my mouse, there is a very noticeable jitter
2) The CPU usage is super high (many processes). When I am programming, I set my computer to auto-rebuild on save. A compilation that used to take 4s now takes 15s.
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Erik De Rijcke
I have an 34" screen attached to a older dell xps. The laptop sounds like a boeing taking off when sharing the screen. On top of that the cpu is so hot it gets throttled which is quite painfull when you're developing (pair programming remotely). It's also very unfortunate that this machine has a build in nvidia gpu with hw encoding included... but it's simply not used.
J Sherwani (Pop Team)
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Is this still an issue you're experiencing?
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Erik De Rijcke
Ideally you want hardware accelerated video encoding/decoding. This would drop the CPU usage to basically 0% and support much faster and sharper video.
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Seth Nickell
I'm definitely struggling with this too, also on MacOS 10.15.6, I'll ask my coworkers on Windows/Linux if they see this too, wonder if this is a Mac specific issue?