gnome-shell performance problems
 

Hi all.

I'm having a performance issue with gnome shell and I wonder if anyone
can provide me with some advice.
Gnome shell seems to be using a lot of my cpu resources.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
949 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m S 203.3 5.4 136:04.53
gnome-shell

When I enable threaded mode in top (H) is see this:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
953 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m R 50.1 5.4 31:22.91
gnome-shell
955 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m R 48.7 5.4 31:41.81
gnome-shell
952 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m R 47.1 5.4 31:03.14
gnome-shell
954 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m R 45.1 5.4 31:22.46 gnome-shell

That is it's using about 50% of each of my cores on my quad core system.
This high cpu usage starts when I run a command that produces a lot of
output on the terminal.
For my own use case I was importing the boost repostory into git.
git svn clone http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost
But the problem can be reproduced using the 'yes' command as well.

Can anyone explain this high cpu usage?
It happens even if I minimize the window producing the output.
Is it worth submitting a bug report for it?

I'm on a T510 Lenovo laptop with an updated Arch and I'm using the
nouveau driver.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Regards,
Pico

gnome-shell performance problems
 

Hi Pico,

Have you tried to check your cpu usage after disabling all the
gnome-shell-extensions? And how about the cpu usage when you run
the command in tty rather than gnome-terminal?

Regards,
Z.


On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 13:32 +0200, Pico Geyer wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm having a performance issue with gnome shell and I wonder if anyone
> can provide me with some advice.
> Gnome shell seems to be using a lot of my cpu resources.
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 949 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m S 203.3 5.4 136:04.53
> gnome-shell
>
> When I enable threaded mode in top (H) is see this:
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 953 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m R 50.1 5.4 31:22.91
> gnome-shell
> 955 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m R 48.7 5.4 31:41.81
> gnome-shell
> 952 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m R 47.1 5.4 31:03.14
> gnome-shell
> 954 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m R 45.1 5.4 31:22.46 gnome-shell
>
> That is it's using about 50% of each of my cores on my quad core system.
> This high cpu usage starts when I run a command that produces a lot of
> output on the terminal.
> For my own use case I was importing the boost repostory into git.
> git svn clone http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost
> But the problem can be reproduced using the 'yes' command as well.
>
> Can anyone explain this high cpu usage?
> It happens even if I minimize the window producing the output.
> Is it worth submitting a bug report for it?
>
> I'm on a T510 Lenovo laptop with an updated Arch and I'm using the
> nouveau driver.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> Regards,
> Pico

gnome-shell performance problems
 

Hi Zhengyu,

Thanks for your response.
I was running a minimal set of extensions, but even after disabling
all of them, there is no change.

You mean a real tty (Ctrl - Alt - F1)?
If so, when I run the command on that tty the problem is not present.
Gnome shell only reached a maximum of 50% and not 200% as perviously shown.

Regards,
Pico

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Zhengyu Xu <xzy3186@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Pico,
>
> Have you tried to check your cpu usage after disabling all the
> gnome-shell-extensions? And how about the cpu usage when you run
> the command in tty rather than gnome-terminal?
>
> Regards,
> Z.
>
>
> On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 13:32 +0200, Pico Geyer wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I'm having a performance issue with gnome shell and I wonder if anyone
>> can provide me with some advice.
>> Gnome shell seems to be using a lot of my cpu resources.
>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
>> 949 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m S 203.3 5.4 136:04.53
>> gnome-shell
>>
>> When I enable threaded mode in top (H) is see this:
>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
>> 953 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m R 50.1 5.4 31:22.91
>> gnome-shell
>> 955 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m R 48.7 5.4 31:41.81
>> gnome-shell
>> 952 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m R 47.1 5.4 31:03.14
>> gnome-shell
>> 954 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m R 45.1 5.4 31:22.46 gnome-shell
>>
>> That is it's using about 50% of each of my cores on my quad core system.
>> This high cpu usage starts when I run a command that produces a lot of
>> output on the terminal.
>> For my own use case I was importing the boost repostory into git.
>> git svn clone http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost
>> But the problem can be reproduced using the 'yes' command as well.
>>
>> Can anyone explain this high cpu usage?
>> It happens even if I minimize the window producing the output.
>> Is it worth submitting a bug report for it?
>>
>> I'm on a T510 Lenovo laptop with an updated Arch and I'm using the
>> nouveau driver.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>> Regards,
>> Pico
>
>

gnome-shell performance problems
 

> I'm having a performance issue with gnome shell and I wonder if anyone
> can provide me with some advice.
...
> I'm on a T510 Lenovo laptop with an updated Arch and I'm using the
> nouveau driver.

Can you paste the output of (it should be 2 lines):
glxinfo | grep render

It should say
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: [something about nouveau]


--
damjan

gnome-shell performance problems
 

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm having a performance issue with gnome shell and I wonder if anyone
>> can provide me with some advice.
> ...
>> I'm on a T510 Lenovo laptop with an updated Arch and I'm using the
>> nouveau driver.
>
> Can you paste the output of (it should be 2 lines):
> glxinfo | grep render
>
> It should say
> direct rendering: Yes
> OpenGL renderer string: [something about nouveau]

Hi damjan,

Here we go:
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x301)
GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend,

Pico

gnome-shell performance problems
 

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Pico Geyer <picogeyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi damjan,
>
> Here we go:
> direct rendering: Yes
> OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x301)
> GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend,
>
> Pico

You're using software rendering. No wonder it's slow.

What's your video card? Are the drivers installed?
How do you start gnome? startx? GDM?