Poor Gnome-Shell Performance in Artful

[Khurshid Alam]

Hi,

I have been trying gnome-shell on artful and the performance of shell 
is pretty poor compare to Unity.
By performance in general I mean:

	a) jittery animations

	b) lag when moving windows

	c)  high cpu usge

	d) high memory usage (gnome-shell process)

	e) overall smoothness

Here is the result I gather so far (without any third-party extensions):

1) Dell XPS 13
	X: Somewhat works ok
	Wayland: Lags with animation

2) i5, Nvidia 940/965, 8 GB RAM
	X: Lags everywhere even with animation disabled
	Wayland: Lags everywhere even with animation disabled
        Cpu: High, Memory: high (> 400 MB)
        No games on wayland

3) i3, intel hd 5500, 4400, 8 GB RAM
	X: Lags everywhere with animation disabled + screen flickering
	Wayland: Lags even more than x (but no screen flickering)
        Cpu: High, Memory: high (> 400 MB)
        No games on wayland

4) Core 2 Due (Quad Core), intel 965, 4 GB RAM
	X: Not usable
	Wayland: Doesn't boot

It has been like this since the beginning with mutter....Finally 
upstream making an effort to improve
performance : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782344

It's huge change with ABI break and may land in 3.26, that is why I am 
thinking may be
it's not a bad idea to stay on gnome-shell (3.24) for 17.10 (even with 
this poor performance).

Thanks.



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