Re: [Partially SOLVED] Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-08 Thread Chris Edwards
On 08/08/15 22:53, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Maybe you could also play with Option "AccelMethod" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, with can either be "EXA" or "glamor" (default for R300, see man radeon(4)). Compare these benchmarks: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTYzMDM Interesting - and very

Re: [Partially SOLVED] Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-08 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe you could also play with Option "AccelMethod" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, with can either be "EXA" or "glamor" (default for R300, see man radeon(4)). Compare these benchmarks: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTYzMDM -- Regards, Jörg. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

[Partially SOLVED] Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-08 Thread Chris Edwards
Long story short: Disable ColorTiling in xorg.conf when using bitmap fonts on a Radeon. While searching for clues on this problem, I found this: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/111454/what-are-the-purposes-of-the-different-types-of-xwindows-fonts in which Gilles explains a bit of the h

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-05 Thread Chris Edwards
On 06/08/15 01:21, Chris Edwards wrote: So Jessie's standard libc-2.19 is about half as fast as 2.17 on the same hardware and otherwise same OS. I don't know if this accounts entirely for the poor performance I'm seeing, but it probably doesn't help. Might this be worth taking up with the GNU l

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-05 Thread Chris Edwards
Thanks for the ongoing suggestions. Some more testing and results: `grep render /var/log/Xorg.0.log`: [ 8898.907] (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled `glxinfo | grep render` gives: direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on ATI R420 I've tested with an xorg.conf and wit

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-04 Thread NY Tan
On 8/4/2015 at 8:57 PM, "Chris Edwards" wrote: > >Thanks all for your help and suggestions. I'll summarise what >further >testing I've done: > >I believe 3D acceleration is working. `glxgears` runs and seems to >achieve a smooth 60 Hz. The __memcpy_sse2_unaligned load doesn't >seem >to incr

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2015-08-05 at 00:46 +1200, Chris Edwards wrote: > Perhaps interestingly, `glxinfo -i` reports: > > name of display: :0.0 > X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range > for > operation) >Major opcode of failed request: 155 (GLX) >Minor opcode of failed r

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-04 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
What's the output of $ grep render /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? -- Regards, jvp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/mpqfeg$4m8$1...@ger.gmane.org

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-04 Thread Chris Edwards
Thanks all for your help and suggestions. I'll summarise what further testing I've done: I believe 3D acceleration is working. `glxgears` runs and seems to achieve a smooth 60 Hz. The __memcpy_sse2_unaligned load doesn't seem to increase due to running glxgears. glxgears -info reports: GL

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-04 Thread Chris Edwards
Thanks all for your help and suggestions. I'll summarise what further testing I've done: I believe 3D acceleration is working. `glxgears` runs and seems to achieve a smooth 60 Hz. The __memcpy_sse2_unaligned load doesn't seem to increase due to running glxgears. glxgears -info reports: GL

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 07:36:36PM +0800, tan...@hushmail.com wrote: > > > On 8/2/2015 at 5:53 PM, "Chris Edwards" > wrote: > > > >Hi Chris (ha, maybe I should have posted directly to the DunLUG > >list!)... > > > >On 02/08/15 18:39, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 05:55:11

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-02 Thread tan_ny
On 8/2/2015 at 5:53 PM, "Chris Edwards" wrote: > >Hi Chris (ha, maybe I should have posted directly to the DunLUG >list!)... > >On 02/08/15 18:39, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 05:55:11PM +1200, Chris Edwards wrote: >>> I've recently installed Debian Jessie 64-bit on my (ad

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 09:52:49PM +1200, Chris Edwards wrote: > Hi Chris (ha, maybe I should have posted directly to the DunLUG list!)... > > On 02/08/15 18:39, Chris Bannister wrote: > >On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 05:55:11PM +1200, Chris Edwards wrote: > >>I've recently installed Debian Jessie 64-bi

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-02 Thread Chris Edwards
Hi Chris (ha, maybe I should have posted directly to the DunLUG list!)... On 02/08/15 18:39, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 05:55:11PM +1200, Chris Edwards wrote: I've recently installed Debian Jessie 64-bit on my (admittedly rather old) dual Opteron workstation, and I'm experie

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2015-08-02 at 17:55 +1200, Chris Edwards wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently installed Debian Jessie 64-bit on my (admittedly rather > > old) dual Opteron workstation, and I'm experiencing pretty bad > performance in X11. Certain redrawing operations are extremely slow, > with delays of

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 05:55:11PM +1200, Chris Edwards wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently installed Debian Jessie 64-bit on my (admittedly rather old) > dual Opteron workstation, and I'm experiencing pretty bad performance in > X11. Certain redrawing operations are extremely slow, with delays of

Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-01 Thread Chris Edwards
Hi all, I've recently installed Debian Jessie 64-bit on my (admittedly rather old) dual Opteron workstation, and I'm experiencing pretty bad performance in X11. Certain redrawing operations are extremely slow, with delays of half a second or more, and Xorg consumes a lot of CPU time. I've won