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SuperMetroid

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Registered: 2023-02-19

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[Solved] Extremely high Render/3d usage on Thinkpad t460

Hi, today i installed arch on my new T460, I'm on a fresh install of arch with Gnome and I'm experimenting issues such  as slowdowns when using firefox (when opening multiple tabs) and other programs, when i check intel_gpu_top it always shows a lot of usage under the Render/3d section.

I've installed the mesa driver for my intel cpu and i've check the wiki page for intel graphics and video acceleration but i don't know why such slowdowns keep occurring.

My laptop specifications are this:

Intel i5-6300u
250 SSD
8 GB of ram ddr4

This is a very similar issue in which its concluded that after some updates the drivers works better for this person, but it seems a bit weird that this same problems occurs on an old thinkpad

Please let me know which other information is necessary for debugging

======= EDIT ========
turns out i was using the incorrect driver for my t460, initially i was using Gnome-Xorg with the intel-media-driver, then i changed to Gnome-Wayland with libva-intel-driver, and now everything works smoothly

Last edited by SuperMetroid (2023-02-21 19:10:20)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [Solved] Extremely high Render/3d usage on Thinkpad t460

Specify "slowdowns" and "other programs" - what slows down and how? What makes you believe this is graphics related?

Also quantify "a lot of usage".
Browsers, compositors, … a lot of stuff will use HW accerelerated rendering, so it's normal-ish to have processes using the GPU.
That's not indicative of anything.

Please let me know which other information is necessary for debugging

Please post your complete system journal for a basic oversight on the situation:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

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