Re: [arch-general] gnome-shell performance problems

2012-08-31 Thread Brandon Watkins
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Jan Steffens wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Pico Geyer wrote:> > > I thought nouveau-dri was mainly for opengl type acceleration. > > Is there something I can go read to clear this up? > > GNOME Shell uses OpenGL. > Yep, what was probably happening is

Re: [arch-general] gnome-shell performance problems

2012-08-31 Thread Jan Steffens
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Pico Geyer wrote:> > I thought nouveau-dri was mainly for opengl type acceleration. > Is there something I can go read to clear this up? GNOME Shell uses OpenGL.

Re: [arch-general] gnome-shell performance problems

2012-08-31 Thread Pico Geyer
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Pico Geyer wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Pico Geyer wrote: >>> Hi damjan, >>> >>> Here we go: >>> direct rendering: Yes >>> OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x301) >>> GL

Re: [arch-general] gnome-shell performance problems

2012-08-31 Thread Pico Geyer
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Pico Geyer wrote: >> Hi damjan, >> >> Here we go: >> direct rendering: Yes >> OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x301) >> GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend, >> >> Pico

Re: [arch-general] gnome-shell performance problems

2012-08-31 Thread Jan Steffens
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Pico Geyer wrote: > Hi damjan, > > Here we go: > direct rendering: Yes > OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x301) > GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend, > > Pico You're using software rendering. No wonder it's slow. What's

Re: [arch-general] gnome-shell performance problems

2012-08-31 Thread Pico Geyer
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: >> I'm having a performance issue with gnome shell and I wonder if anyone >> can provide me with some advice. > ... >> I'm on a T510 Lenovo laptop with an updated Arch and I'm using the >> nouveau driver. > > Can you paste the output of (i

Re: [arch-general] gnome-shell performance problems

2012-08-31 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> I'm having a performance issue with gnome shell and I wonder if anyone > can provide me with some advice. ... > I'm on a T510 Lenovo laptop with an updated Arch and I'm using the > nouveau driver. Can you paste the output of (it should be 2 lines): glxinfo | grep render It should say direct ren

Re: [arch-general] gnome-shell performance problems

2012-08-31 Thread Pico Geyer
Hi Zhengyu, Thanks for your response. I was running a minimal set of extensions, but even after disabling all of them, there is no change. You mean a real tty (Ctrl - Alt - F1)? If so, when I run the command on that tty the problem is not present. Gnome shell only reached a maximum of 50% and not

Re: [arch-general] gnome-shell performance problems

2012-08-31 Thread Zhengyu Xu
Hi Pico, Have you tried to check your cpu usage after disabling all the gnome-shell-extensions? And how about the cpu usage when you run the command in tty rather than gnome-terminal? Regards, Z. On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 13:32 +0200, Pico Geyer wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm having a performance issue

[arch-general] gnome-shell performance problems

2012-08-31 Thread Pico Geyer
Hi all. I'm having a performance issue with gnome shell and I wonder if anyone can provide me with some advice. Gnome shell seems to be using a lot of my cpu resources. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 949 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m S 203.3 5.4 136:04.5