CPU load when moving mouse

[alex-jitbit]

OS

Sequoia

LinearMouse

0.10

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Linear Mouse uses 7-9% cpu (of one core) when moving my mouse (1000hz polling speed) on an M4 MAX Macbook, this is insane.

While Mos (another popular mouse utility for Mac) uses only 0.4%.

The only reason I use LinearMouse is to disable macOS stupid scrolling. It would be great if LinearMouse had an option to completely disable pointer adjustments (especially now that latest macOS has a built-in setting to disable pointer acceleration)

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be great if LinearMouse had an option to completely disable pointer adjustments (especially now that latest macOS has a built-in setting to disable pointer acceleration)

Describe alternatives you've considered

Mos

Additional context

No response

[lujjjh]

Thanks for the feedback!

I believe the CPU usage you're seeing likely isn't coming from pointer adjustments themselves, but rather from the input event monitoring that LinearMouse does in order to detect the currently active device. This is necessary to apply per-device settings, like distinguishing between a mouse and a trackpad. So even if pointer adjustment is disabled, the overhead from monitoring would still be there.

That said, I do think there’s room for optimization in this area. I’ll take a closer look at it.

[lujjjh]

You can give the latest beta version a try and see if it helps with the CPU issue.

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