[Bug 1757088] Re: Activities overview causes increased CPU in Wayland & Xorg

2018-09-04 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Maybe in the previous comment was being overly harsh on myself and gnome-shell. According to the latest stats, this bug was actually mostly fixed by: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/73 which is also in Ubuntu 18.04 and later already. So let's call this bug closed and

[Bug 1757088] Re: Activities overview causes increased CPU in Wayland & Xorg

2018-04-06 Thread Daniel van Vugt
I made a solid attempt at fixing a few related issues, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/73 but failed to address this bug completely. That said, it does provide a significant absolute performance improvement to the overview. I think this bug will be deferred

[Bug 1757088] Re: Activities overview causes increased CPU in Wayland & Xorg

2018-03-26 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Looks like a 100% increase (CPU doubles) now that I'm using the trick of turning off seconds in the panel clock. ** Description changed: - gnome-shell CPU usage increases about another 60% when in activities - overview + gnome-shell CPU usage doubles when in activities overview -- You received

[Bug 1757088] Re: Activities overview causes increased CPU in Wayland & Xorg

2018-03-22 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Here are some realtime profiles showing gnome-shell's CPU going from 11.2% normally to 18.2% when in overview: -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1757088 Title: Activities overview

[Bug 1757088] Re: Activities overview causes increased CPU in Wayland & Xorg

2018-03-22 Thread Daniel van Vugt
** Attachment added: "gnome-shell.realtime.overview.pdf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1757088/+attachment/5086673/+files/gnome-shell.realtime.overview.pdf ** Description changed: - gnome-shell CPU usage increases about another 50% when in activities +

[Bug 1757088] Re: Activities overview causes increased CPU in Wayland & Xorg

2018-03-22 Thread Daniel van Vugt
OK it looks like the increase in CPU in activities overview is just expected. Mutter/Gnome Shell is fairly inefficient to start with so switching to a mode where it has to render more widgets and more detail of course incurs higher CPU. I think a holistic approach is required. Not just fixing

[Bug 1757088] Re: Activities overview causes increased CPU in Wayland & Xorg

2018-03-22 Thread Daniel van Vugt
** Attachment added: "gnome-shell.realtime.maximized.pdf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1757088/+attachment/5086672/+files/gnome-shell.realtime.maximized.pdf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1757088] Re: Activities overview causes increased CPU in Wayland & Xorg

2018-03-21 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Gnome 3.28.0: without the overview ** Attachment added: "gnome-shell.maximized.pdf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1757088/+attachment/5085696/+files/gnome-shell.maximized.pdf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1757088] Re: Activities overview causes increased CPU in Wayland & Xorg

2018-03-21 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Gnome 3.28.0: with the overview. ** Attachment added: "gnome-shell.overview.pdf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1757088/+attachment/5085697/+files/gnome-shell.overview.pdf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1757088] Re: Activities overview causes increased CPU in Wayland & Xorg

2018-03-21 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Without the overview. ** Attachment added: "gnome-shell.user-maximized.pdf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1757088/+attachment/5085669/+files/gnome-shell.user-maximized.pdf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1757088] Re: Activities overview causes increased CPU in Wayland & Xorg

2018-03-21 Thread Daniel van Vugt
With the overview. ** Attachment added: "gnome-shell.user-overview.pdf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1757088/+attachment/5085670/+files/gnome-shell.user-overview.pdf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is