Poor Gnome-Shell Performance in Artful

[Daniel van Vugt]

Yes indeed. We have a few bugs tracking those problems:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bugs?field.tag=performance

But I was going to wait and see how the optimizations in Gnome 3.25/3.26 
work out before worrying about them.

- Daniel


On 16/06/17 18:06, Khurshid Alam wrote:
> 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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