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pottumuussi

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Registered: 2015-09-24

Posts: 9

[SOLVED] Firefox etc. lags after using certain programs

Hi!

I tried to search for a solution, but couldn't find any.

For some weeks now a handful of progrmas,like firefox, thunderbid and telegram-desktop have been acting weird. After using some (maybe memoyr-heavy?) programs, like retroarch or transmission, they are really laggish, slow. CPU usage doesn't rise. Rebooting helps.

I've tried  i915.modeset=0 an setting Intel tear as is suggested here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=247946, but they won't help.

Any suggestions which way to start looking? I'm pretty newbie, but maybe it has to do with RAM/swap? I've got 8 gigs of RAM and a 4 gigs swap partition on Thinkpad X230 with i5 processor.

Last edited by pottumuussi (2020-04-07 14:03:53)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,365

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox etc. lags after using certain programs

Sounds like issues with the newer mesa OpenGL driver, though If you are actively using xf86-video-intel you might want to try and remove that and configurations for it first. Otherwise see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … ver_(i965)

pottumuussi

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Registered: 2015-09-24

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox etc. lags after using certain programs

Thanks! That seemes to have solved the problem.