On 07/18/2018 10:31 AM, James Pearson wrote: > We have noticed significant desktop/UI lag on CentOS7 workstations using > Mate when the CPU usage is high - i.e. the mouse pointer lags and moving > windows (e.g. terminal windows) become jumpy (not smooth) > > We didn't see (or notice) this issue with CentOS6/Gnome2 > > This can easily be shown by running something like 'cpuburn' > (https://patrickmn.com/projects/cpuburn/) and moving a mate-terminal > window around the screen > > We can make things 'better' by running CPU intensive apps via 'nice' > (without any noticeable performance hit to the CPU intensive app) - but > this is a rather messy way of fixing the issue > > We can also make things better by renice'ing X to a negative nice level > > However, both these approaches seem wrong to me - as I'm probably > missing something straightforward here > > Does anyone know of any CentOS7/Mate settings that could be used to > improve desktop/UI responsiveness with high CPU usage ? >
Personally, I would just move to gnmoe3 and use the Gnome Classic desktop.
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