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Hello fellows,
I bought new hardware a couple of weeks ago, I installed Arch on it and hoped it will all work like a charm.
Unfortunately it's not, I am having some strange issues with graphic perfromance using gnome-shell and nvidia driver, all up-to-date.
That mentioned card it Zotac GTX470
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF100 [GeForce GTX 470] (rev a3)
The problem occurs after a while (even in 15 minutes, sometimes it's an hour) of normal desktop using (chromium, pidgin, skype, thunderbird, gnome-terminal, music-player, etc.). And it manifests that every gnome-shell graphic effect becomes horrible slow, unstable and when I manage to run glxgears I have 12FPS, instead of normal ~12000FPS (I know it's not a very good indicator, but still, there is a huge difference).
I thought it might be flashplayer fault, but problem occured even when I uninstalled it.
Then I switched to GNOME3 in fallback mode, but after a while I had very weird situation during watching of a 720p movie.
Suddenly it started to work sorely slow and mplayer had in logs that "**** Your system is too SLOW to play this! ****",
so I rebooted it and it worked great till end of the movie.
I also noticed that I don't have to reboot whole system, Xorg is enough to fix the problem for next copule of minutes.
I am running on:
[root@cytron2:~]$ pacman -Qs nvidia | grep local
local/lib32-libvdpau 0.4.1-3
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 280.13-1
local/libcl 1.1-1
local/libvdpau 0.4.1-1
local/nvidia 280.13-1
local/nvidia-utils 280.13-1
local/opencl-nvidia 280.13-1
[root@cytron2:~]$ pacman -Q xorg-server
xorg-server 1.10.4-1
[root@cytron2:~]$ pacman -Q gnome-shell
gnome-shell 3.0.2-2
ANY idea whatsoever?
I'm pretty despered.
P.S.
I think I should roll out the GNOME entirely and run some other desktop env or window manager.
Last edited by Wojo (2011-10-02 19:13:31)
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I have no solution for you, however I'm using a Nvidia GT435M with the latest Nvidia drivers and am having zero problems related to that. My only problem is logging out of *any* desktop environment and logging back in (where it fails and I have to reboot to get back to the GUI).
Even though our problems are unrelated, I still think there are some bugs with the latest Nvidia drivers.
Good luck!
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And you're sure it's the video card? At the same time are you seeing huge processor spikes or RAM usage?
I agree that I would try another WM just to see if it makes a difference. You could also try to run a different version of the driver and see if that changes anything.
Also what are you seeing in the logs? Anything related to this: nvidia / xorg / gnome messages?
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i too would check htop first.
Apart from that i had huge slowdowns in gnome-shell when using java apps.
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Thanks for your ideas.
Unfortunately there is no signs of anything disturbing in logs (also in dmesg).
Of course I checked `htop`, `iftop`, but everything looked fine.
However, I asked on IRC about this issue and ioni was kind enough to calm me a bit down.
He said it's about "some xorg error trap from gnome-shell/mutter not free-ing correctly" and that it will be fixed in 3.2.
I think my hope is to wait till stable GNOME3.2 will arrive.
At least I know it's not nvidia/xorg releated issue.
We'll see.
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I upgraded to GNOME3.2, problem still occured, then I switched to KDE 4.7, still same thing.
I am starting to think this is Xorg or nvidia related issue.
I noticed that in `xrestop` there is "<unknown>" process while the bug is hitting me.
res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier
3e00000 0 1 0 43 51 128K 1K 129K ? <unknown>
Everything works fine with nouveau (except lack of vdpau)...
Any piece of advice?
Last edited by Wojo (2011-10-02 19:12:42)
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Hello guys,
it's been a while. Unfortunetly this issue is still affecting my system.
I am posting two screenshots of xrestop below, first while Xorg/gnome-shell was responding fine and second while it wasn't.
ok:
bad:
Does anyone see something disturbing here?
And one more thing, current version of packages I am running on (everything up-to-date with a multilib repo):
local/lib32-libvdpau 0.4.1-3
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 290.10-1
local/libcl 1.1-2
local/libvdpau 0.4.1-2
local/nvidia 290.10-1
local/nvidia-utils 290.10-1
local/opencl-nvidia 290.10-1
local/xorg-server 1.11.3-1 (xorg)
local/gnome-shell 3.2.1-1 (gnome)
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Have you resolved your issue?
I have very similar one.
nvidia 240M (blob drivers), core2 duo t8400, linux-pf-core2 x86_64, kde, firefox
When I'm only playing youtube clips, there are some lags sometimes (with GUI interactions, new windows, menus etc) but I can stand it.
But when I start eclipse ide during playing youtube clips, then whole environment start running completely laggy. (eclipse without flash and flash without eclipse runs fine)
Lags appears with decoration manipulations: show menu, open preferences tab, open any window. I'd rather call it "hang my whole environment for a 5 seconds" instead of lags.
Processes:
plugin-container 80-100%
kwin/X - ~20%
Those are approximate numbers because of everything hangs ;]
Maybe it's like conflict somewhere at the line flashplayer <> gtk2 (eclipse is using gtk2)?
It maybe something else, because every GUI operations causes lag, but eclipse brings the most extreme one.
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