Unusably slow performance on Macbook Pro 13" w/ Touchbar with Gazebo 8
I'm running Gazebo 8 from homebrew in MacOS 10.12.3 on a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) laptop with a 3.3 GHz i7 and 16G RAM. The GPU is Intel Iris Graphics 550 1536 MB.
When I launch gazebo
from the command line, both gzserver
and gzclient
consume 100% cpu and FPS hovers around 2-2.5. Interacting with the GUI is too laggy to be usable even with an empty world. If I scale the display resolution to the lowest possible, I see performance increase to 3.5-4 FPS, but things are still unusably slow.
The homebrew formula is from the osrf/simulation
tap. I believe this installation is following best practices. Any insight into why I'm seeing such poor performance would be appreciated. Thanks!
Asked by jssjr on 2017-02-09 14:16:16 UTC
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we have a pull request with changes that should fix the problem. We'll make a new release once it's merged
Asked by iche033 on 2017-02-09 15:23:53 UTC
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I'll go ahead and rebuild from that branch and let you know if it resolves the issue I'm seeing. Thanks for the quick response.
Asked by jssjr on 2017-02-09 15:33:01 UTC
@iche033 That PR fixed the performance issues. I'm seeing 35-45 FPS now.
Asked by jssjr on 2017-02-09 16:21:56 UTC
great thanks for testing it out!
Asked by iche033 on 2017-02-09 16:42:25 UTC
Just got the same problem on same Mac configuration.
Gazebo FPS floats around ~2.5.
Tried reinstall using brew with instruction from http://gazebosim.org/tutorials?tut=install_on_mac. Was still slow until I used
brew install gazebo8 --HEAD.
Asked by mockerkate on 2017-03-22 04:08:12 UTC
Thank you mockerkate! I was having similar FPS issues until i did --HEAD.
Asked by Solarius on 2017-03-26 21:56:25 UTC
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