[Solved] Rotating screen output results in spikes in nvidia usage

Kabir · 2018-11-07 10:39:58

Hi,

Ive been noticing nvidia usage to be unusually high, around 23% when the system is idle but 'only' if the screen orientation is changed to portrait.
So in other words, if the sreen is in portrait and the system is idle usage is around 23%, but if the system is busy with lets say browsing the web the usage drops to around 11%
and then when its idle again, usage spikes back to 23%
Once I change the orientation back to landscape the gpu usage normalizes. Since I have a desktop I dont use intel graphics and use nvidia for X.

I used xrandr:

xrandr --output DP-1 --rotate right

to change the screen orientation picking right from the available options at:

Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
DVI-I-0 disconnected primary (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 509mm x 286mm
   1920x1080     60.00*+
   1680x1050     59.95  
   1600x900      60.00  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1280x1024     60.02  
   1280x800      59.81  
   1280x720      60.00  
   1024x768      60.00  
   800x600       60.32  
   640x480       59.94

Do I have to change some other settings as well? Let me know if you need to view any logs, so far I havnt seen any errors, at least not that I know of..
Any tips / suggestions?
Thanks!

Last edited by Kabir (2018-11-08 22:00:58)

seth · 2018-11-07 16:27:15

The rotation requires the full composition pipeline. Is the behavior similar when you just enforce it?
Also the desktop session, WM, compositor might be relevant.

Kabir · 2018-11-08 18:25:31

Yes, unfortunately theres no change in behavior after enforcing full composition pipeline, in fact, with full composition pipeline enabled
I get the same results even in landscape mode. Killing compton and repeating the above steps doesnt change anything.
So its got to be either the desktop session or WM (i3), right?

seth · 2018-11-08 21:03:46

That's pretty much what I expected, so it's related to the composition pipeline.

Try passing

Option	"UseNvKmsCompositionPipeline" "false"

to the driver (via an xorg configlet)

Kabir · 2018-11-08 22:00:30

That fixed it, thanks so much!

seth · 2018-11-08 22:04:19

Beware that this is probably a transitional config and that the kms composition pipeline might become inevitable. So if it doesn't magically fix itself, you may want to file a bug w/ nvidia.

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topi … his-first/
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topi … -on-linux/

Kabir · 2018-11-08 22:09:24

Oh ok. Well thanks for letting me know, I'll file a bug if that happens.

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#1 2018-11-07 10:39:58

[Solved] Rotating screen output results in spikes in nvidia usage

#2 2018-11-07 16:27:15

Re: [Solved] Rotating screen output results in spikes in nvidia usage

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