Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-15 Thread Akashdeep Dhar
Hey Matthew, Could you please try switching to a much stronger CPU governor like `performance` and see if it helps? You could use this tool https://github.com/t0xic0der/switcheroo and run `sudo ./switcheroo -setn performance` to do so. Regards, Akashdeep Dhar

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-11 Thread Jeremy Linton
Hi, On 2/5/21 3:03 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: On 2/4/21 9:52 PM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: considerable lag. In the last 4 or so years I remember issues with tracker, gnome-shell, mutter/clutter and friends on specific GPUs, default or popular shell extensions and dbus services. A recent bug

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-11 Thread Akashdeep Dhar
This was once discussed here in Ask Fedora https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/how-to-increasing-performance-by-changing-cpu-governor-and-reducing-swappiness/10006 and there's an ongoing investigation regarding the same here https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/212. You would want to check

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-11 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Am 11.02.21 um 15:28 schrieb Peter Robinson: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 1:03 PM Ondrej Mosnacek wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 10:14 AM Viktor Ashirov wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 5:54 PM Michael Catanzaro >>> wrote: > […] >>> This was bugging me for a while. I also noticed that Fedora

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 1:03 PM Ondrej Mosnacek wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 10:14 AM Viktor Ashirov wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 5:54 PM Michael Catanzaro > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Has anybody investigated Jim Salter's claims that Fedora 32 is slow to > >> launch

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-11 Thread Ondrej Mosnacek
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 10:14 AM Viktor Ashirov wrote: > On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 5:54 PM Michael Catanzaro wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Has anybody investigated Jim Salter's claims that Fedora 32 is slow to >> launch applications? Recent article: >> >>

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-11 Thread Viktor Ashirov
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 5:54 PM Michael Catanzaro wrote: > Hi, > > Has anybody investigated Jim Salter's claims that Fedora 32 is slow to > launch applications? Recent article: > > > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/ubuntu-core-20-adds-secure-boot-with-hardware-backed-encryption/ > > "in

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-05 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 10:03 AM Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > On 2/4/21 9:52 PM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > > > considerable lag. In the last 4 or so years I remember issues with > > tracker, gnome-shell, mutter/clutter and friends on specific GPUs, > > default or popular shell extensions and dbus

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 2/4/21 9:52 PM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: considerable lag. In the last 4 or so years I remember issues with tracker, gnome-shell, mutter/clutter and friends on specific GPUs, default or popular shell extensions and dbus services. A recent bug If tracker is enabled the performance drop

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-04 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 8:48 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 10:53:32AM -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > Has anybody investigated Jim Salter's claims that Fedora 32 is slow > > to launch applications? Recent article: > > > >

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-04 Thread Nathanael D. Noblet
On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 13:25 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 10:33:37AM -0700, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: > > > I genuinely wonder if this is due to the launch animation. I know > > > that > > > subjectively for myself using the Impatience to triple the speed > > > makes > >

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-04 Thread clime
On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 21:12, clime wrote: > On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 19:36, Matthew Miller > wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 10:33:37AM -0700, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: >> > > I genuinely wonder if this is due to the launch animation. I know that >> > > subjectively for myself using the

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-04 Thread clime
On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 19:36, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 10:33:37AM -0700, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: > > > I genuinely wonder if this is due to the launch animation. I know that > > > subjectively for myself using the Impatience to triple the speed makes > > > my desktop

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 10:33:37AM -0700, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: > > I genuinely wonder if this is due to the launch animation. I know that > > subjectively for myself using the Impatience to triple the speed makes > > my desktop feel more snappy. > > Sorry, what is 'the Impatience'? How does

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-04 Thread Nathanael D. Noblet
On Wed, 2021-02-03 at 14:48 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > I genuinely wonder if this is due to the launch animation. I know > that > subjectively for myself using the Impatience to triple the speed > makes my > desktop feel more snappy. Sorry, what is 'the Impatience'? How does it improve the

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-03 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 10:53:32AM -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > Has anybody investigated Jim Salter's claims that Fedora 32 is slow > to launch applications? Recent article: > > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/ubuntu-core-20-adds-secure-boot-with-hardware-backed-encryption/ > > "in

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 at 14:13, Artem Tim wrote: > I did my own various tests on Ryzen (Zen 2) 4 month ago or so on Fedora > 32/33 vs Clear Linux which known to be "fastest" distro and in almost all > benchmarks Fedora was equal or even faster a little bit then Clear Linux. > In rare cases Clear

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-03 Thread Artem Tim
I did my own various tests on Ryzen (Zen 2) 4 month ago or so on Fedora 32/33 vs Clear Linux which known to be "fastest" distro and in almost all benchmarks Fedora was equal or even faster a little bit then Clear Linux. In rare cases Clear Linux was faster within the margin of error. Have no

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-03 Thread Fabio Valentini
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 5:54 PM Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > Hi, > > Has anybody investigated Jim Salter's claims that Fedora 32 is slow to > launch applications? Recent article: > > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/ubuntu-core-20-adds-secure-boot-with-hardware-backed-encryption/ > > "in my

Re: Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-03 Thread Nathanael D. Noblet
On Wed, 2021-02-03 at 10:53 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > Hi, > > Has anybody investigated Jim Salter's claims that Fedora 32 is slow > to > launch applications? Recent article: > > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/ubuntu-core-20-adds-secure-boot-with-hardware-backed-encryption/ > >

Ars claims: Fedora 32 is sluggish

2021-02-03 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi, Has anybody investigated Jim Salter's claims that Fedora 32 is slow to launch applications? Recent article: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/ubuntu-core-20-adds-secure-boot-with-hardware-backed-encryption/ "in my experience, Fedora 32 is noticeably, demonstrably more sluggish to