QT charts use 50% of CPU

[Swapnil_Shelke]

Hi,
I am using Qt 5.8 on window 8.
Running a basic qt chart example of Dynamicspline chart given by qt but when i am running this dynamicspline application in release mode still it takes 50% of my cpu usage.
What can be the issue ,if any and what can i do to reduce the cpu usage .

thank u.

[SGaist]

Hi,

The first idea that comes to mind is to update to a more recent version of Qt.

[J.Hilk]

You could use the QML-version of QT-Charts, that one uses the GPU to calculate and display QtChart-objects.

[Swapnil_Shelke]

@J.Hilk
i tried qml qmlf1legends chart example in qt but same the cpu gradually increases with one line drawing .

[kuzulis]

Use Qwt (or QCustomPlot) instead, as QtCharts it is not good choose, IMHO (you can find similar issues on this forum).

[6thC]

I'd recommend using https://doc.qt.io/qt-5.10/qxyseries.html#replace-5

Replacing points one by one destroys a cpu. The metrics for me was just not even worth measuring - it was just an immediate hell no - forget that - I need faster updates. I like declarative QML for gui as a preference but calling replace on a single point fires way too many signals and takes way too long.

I throw my QML LineSeries to a QXYSeries and call replace in c++

In the future I'll probably just declare my series in C++. I wish I could have a better supported hybrid of c++ and QML charts but I have this working very fast using useOpenGL : true; (you can also c++ setUseOpenGL(true) )