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Nektarios

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Registered: 2013-02-19

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gtk (menus, buttons etc) is suddenly very slow

For the last 3-4 days, suddenly the menus and controls of all the apps which use GTK, are very slow to appear/function. They take 1-2 seconds or more.

What maybe is the cause of this?

System:
kernel: 3.13.6-1-ARCH
Radeon HD 5870
Open source radeon drivers
DE: KDE

Wojo

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Registered: 2010-02-12

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Re: gtk (menus, buttons etc) is suddenly very slow

Hi, I don't know if it's related anyhow but for the last couple of days I experience performance issues connected with GTK.

Applications became annoyingly unresponsive; it takes about one second to refresh the content of the window.  I use nvidia driver 334.21-2 and kernel 3.13.6-1; GNOME3 (with gnome-shell) . At the time it happens there is no heavy load, no more than usual IO read/write.

drcouzelis

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Re: gtk (menus, buttons etc) is suddenly very slow

I don't know if it's related, but it reminds me of this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=175859

(The problem was poorly installed video drivers.)

Last edited by drcouzelis (2014-03-10 19:07:49)

Wojo

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Re: gtk (menus, buttons etc) is suddenly very slow

In my case I've upgraded nvidia driver recently and I had blinking issues, it was a bug - and it has been resolved in last upgrade of clutter. But after that I started to expeirence performance issues.

[2014-03-09 18:52] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-nvidia-utils (331.49-1 -> 334.21-2)
[2014-03-09 18:52] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-nvidia-libgl (331.49-1 -> 334.21-2)
[2014-03-09 18:53] [PACMAN] upgraded nvidia-utils (331.49-1 -> 334.21-3)
[2014-03-09 18:53] [PACMAN] upgraded nvidia-libgl (331.49-1 -> 334.21-3)
[2014-03-09 18:53] [PACMAN] upgraded nvidia (331.49-1 -> 334.21-2)

Last edited by Wojo (2014-03-10 19:44:35)

giulivo

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Re: gtk (menus, buttons etc) is suddenly very slow

In my case I've upgraded nvidia driver recently and I had blinking issues, it was a bug - and it has been resolved in last upgrade of clutter. But after that I started to expeirence performance issues.

[2014-03-09 18:52] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-nvidia-utils (331.49-1 -> 334.21-2)
[2014-03-09 18:52] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-nvidia-libgl (331.49-1 -> 334.21-2)
[2014-03-09 18:53] [PACMAN] upgraded nvidia-utils (331.49-1 -> 334.21-3)
[2014-03-09 18:53] [PACMAN] upgraded nvidia-libgl (331.49-1 -> 334.21-3)
[2014-03-09 18:53] [PACMAN] upgraded nvidia (331.49-1 -> 334.21-2)

I'm experiencing this same issue and was affected by that same bug before the update. Anything useful we could do to further troubleshoot this? Xorg logs don't seem to report anything problematic.

Yet, the initial poster seems to be using a Radeon video card so the problem comes probably from the mesa update

[2014-03-09 16:48] [PACMAN] upgraded mesa (10.0.3-1 -> 10.1.0-2)

Last edited by giulivo (2014-03-11 09:57:33)

Nektarios

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Re: gtk (menus, buttons etc) is suddenly very slow

Yet, the initial poster seems to be using a Radeon video card so the problem comes probably from the mesa update

[2014-03-09 16:48] [PACMAN] upgraded mesa (10.0.3-1 -> 10.1.0-2)

That's interesting. How can I downgrade to test it?

drcouzelis

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Re: gtk (menus, buttons etc) is suddenly very slow

Downgrading Packages

Last edited by drcouzelis (2014-03-11 13:18:36)

giulivo

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Re: gtk (menus, buttons etc) is suddenly very slow

Yet, the initial poster seems to be using a Radeon video card so the problem comes probably from the mesa update

[2014-03-09 16:48] [PACMAN] upgraded mesa (10.0.3-1 -> 10.1.0-2)

That's interesting. How can I downgrade to test it?

I'd say mesa or even clutter, also updated to fix the bug.

Wojo

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Re: gtk (menus, buttons etc) is suddenly very slow

I got the same issue as described here -> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1391170

Last edited by Wojo (2014-03-11 16:24:44)