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Registered: 2018-02-09

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linux 4.15.1/nvidia 390.25-4 update causing slowness

Hey all, first off, apologies for my ignorance as a first time poster!

This update (https://pastebin.com/yESD7YUi) introduced some weird slowness, bear with me as I try to explain. In Chromium, I had a tab open with a Youtube video playing and a tab with Netflix open. I hovered over a thumbnail in Netflix (causing it to expand), and apparently this was a tremendous burden on my system since it caused the video to stutter for a second or two. I also noticed my browser game (DC:SS) failed to redraw when switching from/to the tab.

I rolled back just the nvidia and linux packages (and their dependencies), and this resolved the issue.

I read the release notes for Linux; while I don't understand most of the changes, nothing stood out to me as a likely culprit. I read the nvidia release notes as well and those are more opaque to me, but also nothing struck me as obvious. I did a quick search for bugs and found nothing, but I also don't quite know what to search for.

My knowledge of diagnosing these types of problems is pretty limited, I had a quick look at htop and nvidia-settings but I don't think this would help me figure out the root cause.

CPU: i5-2500K
GPU: GTX 1060

So, any thoughts? Anyone else having issues? A friend mentioned 4.15 caused some issues with virtualization for him, but I'm not sure if this is related in any way.

Thanks!

HalosGhost

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Re: linux 4.15.1/nvidia 390.25-4 update causing slowness

Welcome to the BBS, please take a moment to read the Code of Conduct.

It looks as though the issue you are experiencing already has a topic and active discussion here. In the future, please search before posting.

Closing.

All the best,

-HG

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