[Bug 1189645] Re: 13.04, lag under desktop environments

2013-08-30 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Alan Pater, could you please confirm this issue exists with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . If the issue remains, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applicatio

[Bug 1189645] Re: 13.04, lag under desktop environments

2013-08-29 Thread Alan Pater
The latest updates seem to have triggered the issue, as well as displaying other artifacts. I now get some graphics corruption (attached) and, while watching a (html5) video on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wp2qhoop9U), the whole system froze and the video audio went into some sort of sk

[Bug 1189645] Re: 13.04, lag under desktop environments

2013-08-29 Thread Alan Pater
~$ uname -a Linux loronegro 3.11.0-031100rc6-generic #201308181835 SMP Sun Aug 18 22:44:53 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Saucy) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscr

[Bug 1189645] Re: 13.04, lag under desktop environments

2013-07-23 Thread Alan Pater
** Description changed: A while after logging on, the system gets really slow. Menus and window movements take a while to respond, switching windows is slow, etc. This is a regression, it was not like this using Ubuntu 12.10, it just started on 13.04. Tried different desktops (Unity, Gn

[Bug 1189645] Re: 13.04, lag under desktop environments

2013-07-23 Thread Alan Pater
Worse with a really old kernel: 3.2.48-030248-generic With that kernel, it only took 5 minutes of light web browsing for the system to totally bog down. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 1189645] Re: 13.04, lag under desktop environments

2013-07-23 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream-v3.11-rc2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1189645 Title: 13.04, lag under desktop environments To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1189645] Re: 13.04, lag under desktop environments

2013-07-22 Thread Alan Pater
Same problem with the new mainline kernel -- Fresh start with new kernel -- ~$ uname -a Linux loronegro 3.11.0-031100rc2-generic #201307211535 SMP Sun Jul 21 19:45:33 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux ~$ gtkperf -a Total time: 14.87 ~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda Timing cached reads: 1682 MB

[Bug 1189645] Re: 13.04, lag under desktop environments

2013-07-22 Thread Alan Pater
Yeah, I can try another kernel, but I don't see how that helps to identify the problem. Shouldn't there be some register or log showing what part of the system is getting out of sorts? PS: After a long shutdown and restart, the problem reappeared within 15 minutes of starting. I noticed this ti

[Bug 1189645] Re: 13.04, lag under desktop environments

2013-07-22 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Alan Pater, thank you for updating your BIOS. Could you please test the newest mainline kernel via http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel- ppa/mainline/v3.11-rc2-saucy/ ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 1189645] Re: 13.04, lag under desktop environments

2013-07-22 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Tags removed: bios-outdated-a06 ** Tags added: latest-bios-a06 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1189645 Title: 13.04, lag under desktop environments To manage notifications about t

[Bug 1189645] Re: 13.04, lag under desktop environments

2013-07-21 Thread Alan Pater
With the bios update, it takes longer to trigger, but eventually, yes, the system slows down. Videos get out of sync, opening applications, moving windows, menus all get really slow. ~$ sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date A06 02/02/2008 In an attempt to quantify,

[Bug 1189645] Re: 13.04, lag under desktop environments

2013-07-20 Thread Alan Pater
** No longer affects: tlp (Ubuntu Saucy) ** No longer affects: tlp (Ubuntu Raring) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1189645 Title: 13.04, lag under desktop environments To manage not

[Bug 1189645] Re: 13.04, lag under desktop environments

2013-07-20 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Alan Pater, as per http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/04/Product/latitude-d420 an update is available for your BIOS (A06). If you update to this, does it change anything? If not, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:

[Bug 1189645] Re: 13.04, lag under desktop environments

2013-07-18 Thread Alan Pater
However, given that TLP made it worse, could it be that some power management setting is doing something funky with the system cache as indicated with the hdparm -T result? What I don't know and can't find to how to see what state the cache or memory are in. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1189645] Re: 13.04, lag under desktop environments

2013-07-18 Thread Alan Pater
It seems the TLP was not the main cause after all. I've purged TLP from the system, rebooted multiple times, and the issue still appears, just not as quickly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/b