[Bug 1889377] Re: gnome-shell using lot of CPU (costantly 30% - often up to 100%) making my system quite slow

2020-07-30 Thread Mirko
I've done the suggested procedure and opened bug 1889541

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[Bug 1889377] Re: gnome-shell using lot of CPU (costantly 30% - often up to 100%) making my system quite slow

2020-07-30 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Yes, kernel 5.7 is too new for nvidia-340. You will need to go back to
the official Ubuntu kernel (5.4) first.

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[Bug 1889377] Re: gnome-shell using lot of CPU (costantly 30% - often up to 100%) making my system quite slow

2020-07-30 Thread Mirko
I tried to reinstall drivers and now I'm getting another error (see
attachment), in particolar it seems there is some compatibility issue
with the last version of kernel:

ERROR (dkms apport): kernel package linux-headers-5.7.10-050710-generic is not 
supported
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.7.10-050710-generic 
(x86_64)

thanks for the hints on the new GPUs to consider, I'll check to see if
they're in line with my budget; I also have to check if they're
compatible with my P5QL Pro Motherboard.

Thx
Mirko


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[Bug 1889377] Re: gnome-shell using lot of CPU (costantly 30% - often up to 100%) making my system quite slow

2020-07-30 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Also you might have been hitting bug 1872159. To work around that try
removing 'splash' from the kernel command line.

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[Bug 1889377] Re: gnome-shell using lot of CPU (costantly 30% - often up to 100%) making my system quite slow

2020-07-30 Thread Daniel van Vugt
You might want to consider the current cheapest Nvidia cards for sale:

 * GeForce GT 710 (2x as fast as the GeForce 9600)

 * GeForce GT 1030 (7x as fast as the GeForce 9600)

Both of those also support the latest Nvidia drivers (version 450).

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[Bug 1889377] Re: gnome-shell using lot of CPU (costantly 30% - often up to 100%) making my system quite slow

2020-07-30 Thread Daniel van Vugt
We would need to see the system log from one of those failed boots. To
do that please:

1. Reproduce a failed boot with nvidia-340.

2. Uninstall nvidia-340 and after rebooting collect the log from the
previous failed boot. For example, to collect the last three boots run:

   journalctl -b-1 > prevboot-1.txt
   journalctl -b-2 > prevboot-2.txt
   journalctl -b-3 > prevboot-3.txt

and then please open a new bug with those logs attached.

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[Bug 1889377] Re: gnome-shell using lot of CPU (costantly 30% - often up to 100%) making my system quite slow

2020-07-30 Thread Mirko
1) Yes, sure, I have installed nvidia-340 but I get the described result
:-( --> do you know anything I could do to detect what goes wrong and to
repair it?

2) I know and that's why I also would prefer option 1, but not working I
went for option 3 (which is less worse than 2)

Thanks.

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[Bug 1889377] Re: gnome-shell using lot of CPU (costantly 30% - often up to 100%) making my system quite slow

2020-07-29 Thread Daniel van Vugt
1) Make sure you are using the nvidia-340 driver, which is what your
card requires. Newer Nvidia drivers probably won't work with that card.
If you still get stuck with a system that doesn't boot properly then
please open a new bug about that.

2) The freezes appear to be bugs in the nouveau driver, which is a
common problem. It's not a stable and reliable driver for many cards.
That why I recommended the Nvidia proprietary driver.

A simpler solution, perhaps, is to just get a newer Nvidia card that is
supported by the current Nvidia drivers.

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[Bug 1889377] Re: gnome-shell using lot of CPU (costantly 30% - often up to 100%) making my system quite slow

2020-07-29 Thread Mirko
Hi Daniel, and thanks.
Let me give you some history to explain why I had configured it like that, in 
order to understand if you could help me or router me to the proper support.

I've been using Ubuntu for around 4 years now and I've collected some 
background on my GeForce 9600 GPU and the issues that are coming with it.
I installed (freshly new) Ubuntu 20.04 around 10 days ago (after an HD failure 
without the need to restore any OS data/configuration) and I tried all I knew 
to make the GPU working:
1) installing the proprietary drivers + putting nomodeset in grub + 
uncommenting WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf --> result: the 
system doesn't boot. It keeps staying on the purple/black screen before asking 
for login credentials

2) I restored the nouveau drivers, removed nomodeset in grub and commented back 
WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf --> result: the system boots but 
periodically and randomly, when I do  activities like browsing with Chrome, 
maximizing a window, playing a video (the list is not exhaustive as the problem 
is not deterministic) the graphic environment freezes for very long time (also 
minutes in some case), only the mouse is moving and the system may be accessed 
without delays of performance issues via SSH; killing the process that 
presumebly originated the problem from SSH gives back control.
In logs, the error I got when this occurred was the following:
[ 3529.626679 < 2306,035088>] nouveau :01:00.0: fifo: CACHE_ERROR - ch 9 
[Xorg[2370]] subc 0 mthd 0060 data beef0201
[ 3628.765241 <   99,138562>] ATL1E :02:00.0 enp2s0: NIC Link is Down
[ 3629.628288 <0,863047>] [TTM] Buffer eviction failed

3) to solve problem 2 I have put nouveau.modeset=0 in grub and it
addressed the problem (I'm not experiencing anymore that annoying
freeze) but, I learn now, originated the problem heading me to you

Do you have any idea (or can me route to the proper solving group) on
what I can do to address problem 1 or, in case not, problem 2?

Thanks again for your support.
Mirko

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[Bug 1889377] Re: gnome-shell using lot of CPU (costantly 30% - often up to 100%) making my system quite slow

2020-07-29 Thread Daniel van Vugt
I found the problem. Your system only has one GPU (GeForce 9600) which
it needs the 'nouveau' driver to use. But you have disabled the
'nouveau' driver in your kernel command line:

  nouveau.modeset=0

and so gnome-shell is using software rendering, hence high CPU. So this
is not a bug.

Please remove that option from your kernel command line
(/etc/default/grub) then run:

  sudo update-grub

and reboot.

Separately, I suggest you will get much better performance using the
proprietary Nvidia driver. It seems your GPU requires Nvidia driver
version 340. To install that please open the 'Additional Drivers' app.

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   Status: Incomplete => Invalid

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[Bug 1889377] Re: gnome-shell using lot of CPU (costantly 30% - often up to 100%) making my system quite slow

2020-07-29 Thread Daniel van Vugt
In future if you need to configure or analyse extensions, please use the
Extensions app (gnome-shell-extension-prefs) and not Gnome Tweaks. But
it looks like the list of extensions is still nice and short.

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[Bug 1889377] Re: gnome-shell using lot of CPU (costantly 30% - often up to 100%) making my system quite slow

2020-07-29 Thread Mirko
Hi Daniel, thanks for your answer.
Please find below mi answers to your points (after >>>):
1. Please run the 'Extensions' app and remove/disable any extensions not 
provided by Ubuntu.
>>> if you mean Gnome extensions, I don't have any (see attachment 
>>> Tweaks2020-07-29 11-30-17.png)

2. If you are using indicator-multiload then please uninstall that (bug 784055)
>>> I have no indicator-multiload installed also checked with sudo apt list 
>>> --installed | grep "indicator-multiload" which returns an empty list

3. If the problem still persists after rebooting then please run these
commands:

   lspci -k > lspcik.txt
   gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.shell > settings.txt
   journalctl -b0 > journal.txt
   sudo apt install mesa-utils
   glxinfo > glxinfo.txt

   and attach the resulting text files here
>>> find attached the 4 files

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[Bug 1889377] Re: gnome-shell using lot of CPU (costantly 30% - often up to 100%) making my system quite slow

2020-07-29 Thread Daniel van Vugt
1. Please run the 'Extensions' app and remove/disable any extensions not
provided by Ubuntu.

2. If you are using indicator-multiload then please uninstall that (bug
784055).

3. If the problem still persists after rebooting then please run these
commands:

   lspci -k > lspcik.txt
   gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.shell > settings.txt
   journalctl -b0 > journal.txt
   sudo apt install mesa-utils
   glxinfo > glxinfo.txt

   and attach the resulting text files here.

** Tags added: performance

** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Incomplete

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