Closed doubledogdare610 closed 6 years ago
JosephMcc
commented
9 years ago Could you provide a bit more info? Cinnamon version, video card, drivers, etc. Does this happen with all windows or just certain ones? Might be a dumb question but you aren't running in software rendering mode are you?
hamaryns
commented
8 years ago I experience this also, since a few days. Probably caused by some update or install.
top - 09:33:32 up 46 min, 2 users, load average: 0,99, 0,91, 0,71 Tasks: 370 total, 1 running, 369 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 17,5 us, 0,5 sy, 0,0 ni, 81,9 id, 0,1 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st KiB Mem: 7853496 total, 5163960 used, 2689536 free, 346496 buffers KiB Swap: 8058876 total, 0 used, 8058876 free. 2457188 cached Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2679 hendrik 20 0 1647264 213960 78960 S 64,0 2,7 18:14.07 cinnamon
2690 hendrik 20 0 1559124 705140 91912 S 2,7 9,0 1:59.28 firefox
2692 hendrik 20 0 724548 178468 72884 S 2,3 2,3 1:04.29 skype
I often have to click a window twice to activate it. $ uname -mrs Linux 3.16.0-38-generic x86_64 $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: LinuxMint Description: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela Release: 17.2 Codename: rafaela
Cinnamon 2.6.13 Intel quad core
pingou67
commented
8 years ago I see exactly the same high cpu usage when moving windows.
I have a nvidia graphic card with proprietary driver and cinnamon 2.8.4+rosa installed.
% uname -mrs Linux 3.19.0-39-generic x86_64
pingou67
commented
8 years ago update:
pingou67
commented
8 years ago Same after upgrade to linuxmint 17.3 with cinnamon 2.8.6+rosa
ghost
commented
8 years ago I have the same problem since I upgraded to linux mint 17.3. Cinnamon becomes slower after moving windows time after time or deleting several files. The cpu usage of cinnamon goes quite high when moving windows quickly. It happens for all windows. I have to restart cinnamon periodically to keep the system smooth.
Cinnamon 2.8.6 kernel 4.2.0-19-generic nvidia-352 driver and bumblebee intel core i5-2430m
presianbg
commented
8 years ago Same here. Moving windows objects in cinnamon require a lot of CPU. I'm on Fedora 23x64 bit. With latest mesa + optimus technology and latest cinnamon:
cinnamon-settings-daemon-2.8.1-2.fc23.x86_64
cinnamon-control-center-filesystem-2.8.0-2.fc23.x86_64
cinnamon-translations-2.8.1-2.fc23.noarch
cinnamon-session-2.8.2-2.fc23.x86_64
cinnamon-desktop-2.8.0-2.fc23.x86_64
cinnamon-screensaver-2.8.0-2.fc23.x86_64
cinnamon-menus-2.8.0-2.fc23.x86_64
cinnamon-control-center-2.8.0-2.fc23.x86_64
imsettings-cinnamon-1.6.8-6.fc23.x86_64
cinnamon-2.8.6-1.fc23.x86_64
bumblebee-release-1.2-1.noarch
bumblebee-nonfree-release-1.2-1.noarch
bumblebee-nvidia-352.63-1.fc23.x86_64
bumblebee-3.2.1-9.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libwayland-egl-devel-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libwayland-egl-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libGLU-9.0.0-9.fc23.i686
mesa-libEGL-devel-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.x86_64
mesa-filesystem-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libOSMesa-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.i686
mesa-libgbm-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libgbm-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.i686
mesa-libglapi-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libxatracker-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libGL-devel-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.x86_64
mesa-dri-drivers-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.x86_64
mesa-filesystem-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.i686
mesa-dri-drivers-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.i686
mesa-libGLU-9.0.0-9.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libEGL-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libEGL-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.i686
mesa-libGLES-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libGL-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.i686
mesa-libGL-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libGLU-devel-9.0.0-9.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libOSMesa-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libglapi-11.2.0-0.devel.18.af7ba98.fc23.i686
Best Regards, Presian
presianbg
commented
8 years ago Just to be sure it is not mesa issue - same with downgraded (distro default) version:
mesa-libOSMesa-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libGL-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libOSMesa-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.i686
mesa-libGLU-9.0.0-9.fc23.i686
mesa-libGLES-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libGL-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.i686
mesa-filesystem-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.i686
mesa-dri-drivers-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libGL-devel-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libglapi-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libgbm-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libEGL-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.i686
mesa-filesystem-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.x86_64
mesa-dri-drivers-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.i686
mesa-libGLU-9.0.0-9.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libglapi-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.i686
mesa-libEGL-devel-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libgbm-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.i686
mesa-libwayland-egl-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libwayland-egl-devel-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libGLU-devel-9.0.0-9.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libxatracker-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.x86_64
mesa-libEGL-11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23.x86_64
PS: Friend of mine with Arch Linux and all packages up to date doesn't have this issue. So I assume it may be hardware or Linux distro related : My specs:
ASUS G551JM
CPU: Intel Core I-7 -4710HQ
GPU: Nvidia 860M (optimus technology)
Fedora 23 x64Anything on this? My cinnamon is getting unusable :(
brub2
commented
8 years ago I'm affected by this issue since cinnamon 2.8 on Mint 17.2 (now updated to Mint 17.3). Cinnamon is running in hardware rendering mode. Moving windows becomes annoyingly hard (lag) after a few minutes of normal use and cinnamon has to be restarted. I have an nvidia GT 430. Updating the kernel to 3.19 and all level 1 to 3 updates (including the latest proprietary driver) don't fix anything. It affects at least these applications: nemo, firefox, gedit, calc, evince, archive manager. I'm not sure but it didn't happen yet on nvidia-setting and banshee (but I don't play very much with these windows after they are open).
presianbg
commented
8 years ago Thunderbird and Chrome are making it worse.
pingou67
commented
8 years ago With chrome running, cinnamon is unusable.
pingou67
commented
8 years ago I've tested same computer with gnome-shell 3.16 and 3.18, no problem (even with chrome), moving windows is smooth with CPU below 10%. I say that because cinnamon is a fork of gnome-shell if that can help.
ManIVIctorious
commented
8 years ago Sounds like cinnamon is running in fallback mode. There can be various reasons for this but the only one that affected me personally was a libgl issue. The ones of you with nvidia graphics should try the proprietary driver and the nvidia-libgl
presianbg
commented
8 years ago @ManIVIctorious I'm not sure about this... I'm pretty sure that cinnamon is not in fallback mode. Also as I shown, all related packages are up-to-date and beyond. The most important part is that after fresh start or cinnamon restart everything is fine for the next 2-5 min. After that It's using all the cpu when windows are moved. I suppose may be a problem with buffers or cache.
EDIT: Reinstalling all cinnamon packages didn't helped. Changing the desktop manager (lightdm -> gdm) also didn't helped. Right click on panel -> Troubleshoot -> Restore to default helped :) May I ask all effected users to try this?
brub2
commented
8 years ago Of course nvidia proprietary driver is installed. If Cinnamon was running in fallback mode, I would have a warning message at login. Is this issue related to this? [https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/860367/linux/window-drag-lag-with-geforce-gtx-750-cinnamon-gnome-unity/3] I didn't try the "solution" proposed in this topic yet. I tried to manually reinitialize my cinnamon config (delete files), and then reactivate my couple of applets and extension and it didn't help. I'm now testing with a plain cinnamon config like preslanbg proposed. I have little hope, but we will see. More news soon.
pingou67
commented
8 years ago Same for me, nvidia-340-updates is installed and I haven't the warning message at login.
brub2
commented
8 years ago So far so good. Restoring Cinnamon to default (like presianbg suggested) seems to work. I will gradually reactivate my applets/extension; maybe one of them causes the issue.
pingou67
commented
8 years ago I have reinstalled two computers from scratch, one with nvidia 9600GT, the other with nvidia GTS450, both with proprietary drivers: same result, high CPU when moving windows and lag with chrome open. Like I said previously no problem with gnome-shell 3.16 and 3.18.
JosephMcc
commented
8 years ago The machine I have here has an older nvidia gtk260. I run the open source drivers on 3 installs, Mint, LMDE, and Ubuntu16.04 and don't have any of these issues. For those of you who have done new installs, do you get the issue when you first install or does it occur only after changing drivers? Or maybe after tweaking some settings or add some applets, extensions, or something else?
pingou67
commented
8 years ago As I have said previously, I have the problem with two new install of mint cinnamon 17.3, one with a nvidia 9600GT, the other with a nvidia GTS450, both with proprietary drivers and no tweaking (applets, extensions or other). When I move a windows, I see a high cpu usage with top. With chrome launched, cinnamon is unusable.
JosephMcc
commented
8 years ago @pingou67 which means at the very least you installed drivers and applications, so not a totally new install. Was it an issue when first installed? Using the open source drivers?
pingou67
commented
8 years ago @JosephMcc I just tested with the open source nouveau and same results. You do not see an high CPU usage (cinnamon process) when you move a window?
JosephMcc
commented
8 years ago No I don't and I've run cinnamon under multiple distros and with multiple machines. I mostly use firefox but I do use chrome on occasion and don't see an issue with it either. At worst my cpu usage will go to maybe 7 or 8% while moving a window but I don't think that is unexpected. That's why I was poking at people to find out what changes they made. There is some missing variable here that causes certain of you to run into this issue but not others.
Issues like this are nearly impossible to solve until we can find the cause and a way to reproduce.
pingou67
commented
8 years ago My cpu is about 40% when I move a window (more with nouveau). With gnome-shell (ubuntu 15.10), it is like you 7-8%.
I'm agree it's difficult to solve the problem without a way to reproduce it and I don't see the missing variable...
pingou67
commented
8 years ago Is there a way to verify that cinnamon doesn't running in software mode?
brub2
commented
8 years ago Maybe we are facing many related issues here. Even after resetting Cinnamon to defaults, the "top command in a terminal" still reveals a somewhat high (easily 20 to 40%) cpu for cinnamon process while moving a window. So maybe the CPU usage is too high (I didn't compare with other DE), but the main point for me is that moving has to remain smooth (it was not before resetting to defaults).
Also, I have to conduct more tests but my issue (moving becomes not smooth after some time) reappeared after I activated the intellide panel. Maybe others can confirm this.
BTW I don't use chrome but sometimes I use chromium beta and it's not better or worse than with firefox.
LucaDev
commented
8 years ago I have the same problem, up to 100% load on one core when moving a window
brycekottke
commented
8 years ago same problem here. Weather it is moving a window, typing in a terminal, scrolling up and down on a webpage. I get a 1 second to 2 second freeze / lag every time the CPU randomly spikes for cinnamon. see below the random 81.2 and 99.5 CPU spike for the cinnamon process.
Process CPU Spike:
~ $ top -d 1 |grep cinnamon
3605 jim 20 0 2158260 579332 105884 S 1.0 3.5 79:02.91 cinnamon
3605 jim 20 0 2158260 579332 105884 S 1.0 3.5 79:02.92 cinnamon
3605 jim 20 0 2158260 579332 105884 S 1.0 3.5 79:02.93 cinnamon
3605 jim 20 0 2158260 579332 105884 S 1.0 3.5 79:02.94 cinnamon
3605 jim 20 0 2158260 579332 105884 S 1.0 3.5 79:02.95 cinnamon
3605 jim 20 0 2158260 579332 105884 S 1.0 3.5 79:02.96 cinnamon
3605 jim 20 0 2158324 579352 105884 R 81.2 3.5 79:03.78 cinnamon
3605 jim 20 0 2158388 579352 105884 R 99.5 3.5 79:04.78 cinnamon
3605 jim 20 0 2158388 579452 105884 S 9.0 3.5 79:04.87 cinnamon
3605 jim 20 0 2158388 579452 105884 S 1.0 3.5 79:04.88 cinnamonCinnamon Version:
~ $ cinnamon --version
Cinnamon 2.8.8CPU Info:
~ $ head -15 /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 42
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
stepping : 7
microcode : 0x29
cpu MHz : 1601.054
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4Graphics Card Info:
~ $ lspci -v |grep -A 15 VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device 36d1
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30
Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fb000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Nvidia Drivers Installed:
~ $ dpkg -l |grep nvidia-
rc nvidia-304 304.131-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA legacy binary driver - version 304.131
rc nvidia-340 340.96-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA binary driver - version 340.96
ii nvidia-352 352.63-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA binary driver - version 352.63
ii nvidia-common 1:0.2.91.11linuxmint2 amd64 transitional package for ubuntu-drivers-common
rc nvidia-libopencl1-340 340.96-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL Driver and ICD Loader library
rc nvidia-opencl-icd-340 340.96-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL ICD
ii nvidia-opencl-icd-352 352.63-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL ICD
ii nvidia-prime 0.6.2linuxmint1 amd64 Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii nvidia-settings 331.20-0ubuntu8 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driverTemporary Resolution:
this tends to resolve it for a temporary period of time. But just comes right back again.
catb0t
commented
8 years ago Same issue.
Example
cat @ mint-kitty : ~ $ top -d 1 | grep cinnamon
24436 cat 20 0 2004656 260496 56344 S 18.8 4.3 9:08.08 cinnamon
24436 cat 20 0 2004656 260496 56344 S 14.9 4.3 9:08.23 cinnamon
24436 cat 20 0 2004656 260496 56344 S 13.9 4.3 9:08.37 cinnamon
24298 cat 20 0 1235456 104840 38368 S 1.0 1.7 0:21.70 cinnamon-settin
24436 cat 20 0 2004656 260496 56344 S 13.9 4.3 9:08.51 cinnamon
24436 cat 20 0 2004720 260504 56344 S 15.0 4.3 9:08.66 cinnamon
24436 cat 20 0 2004720 260528 56344 R 14.9 4.3 9:08.81 cinnamon
24436 cat 20 0 2004720 260532 56344 S 16.8 4.3 9:08.98 cinnamon
24436 cat 20 0 2004720 260536 56344 S 31.7 4.3 9:09.30 cinnamon
24298 cat 20 0 1235456 104840 38368 S 1.0 1.7 0:21.71 cinnamon-settin
24436 cat 20 0 2004720 260536 56344 S 31.7 4.3 9:09.62 cinnamon
24298 cat 20 0 1235456 104840 38368 S 1.0 1.7 0:21.72 cinnamon-settin
24436 cat 20 0 2004720 260536 56344 S 39.0 4.3 9:10.01 cinnamon
24298 cat 20 0 1235456 104840 38368 S 2.0 1.7 0:21.74 cinnamon-settin
24436 cat 20 0 2004720 260536 56344 S 24.8 4.3 9:10.26 cinnamon
24436 cat 20 0 2004788 260536 56344 S 36.6 4.3 9:10.63 cinnamon
24298 cat 20 0 1235456 104840 38368 S 2.0 1.7 0:21.76 cinnamon-settin
24436 cat 20 0 2004788 260596 56344 S 30.7 4.3 9:10.94 cinnamon
24436 cat 20 0 2006084 260596 56344 R 75.2 4.3 9:11.70 cinnamon
24298 cat 20 0 1235456 104840 38368 S 1.0 1.7 0:21.77 cinnamon-settin
24436 cat 20 0 2003724 260356 56100 R 90.1 4.3 9:12.61 cinnamon
24298 cat 20 0 1235456 104868 38368 R 16.8 1.7 0:21.94 cinnamon-settin
24436 cat 20 0 2016516 272692 56040 R 93.1 4.5 9:13.55 cinnamon
24298 cat 20 0 1235456 104868 38368 S 38.6 1.7 0:22.33 cinnamon-settin
24436 cat 20 0 2033140 289348 56036 R 91.1 4.8 9:14.47 cinnamon
24298 cat 20 0 1235456 104868 38368 S 1.0 1.7 0:22.34 cinnamon-settin
24436 cat 20 0 2044008 300408 56036 R 76.0 5.0 9:15.23 cinnamon
24298 cat 20 0 1235456 104868 38368 S 1.0 1.7 0:22.35 cinnamon-settin
24436 cat 20 0 2053620 309412 56064 R 64.4 5.1 9:15.88 cinnamon
24298 cat 20 0 1235456 104868 38368 S 1.0 1.7 0:22.36 cinnamon-settin
24436 cat 20 0 2058652 313048 56064 S 59.4 5.2 9:16.48 cinnamon
24436 cat 20 0 2061216 314880 56068 S 52.5 5.2 9:17.01 cinnamon
24298 cat 20 0 1235456 104868 38368 S 1.0 1.7 0:22.37 cinnamon-settinVersion
130 | cat @ mint-kitty : ~ $ cinnamon --version
Cinnamon 2.8.6CPU
cat @ mint-kitty : ~ $ head -15 /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 42
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz
stepping : 7
microcode : 0x29
cpu MHz : 2348.414
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
cat @ mint-kitty : ~ $ lspci -v |grep -A 15 VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Control
ler (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
DeviceName: Onboard IGD
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 34
Memory at f7800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at f000 [size=64]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 35
Memory at f7f0a000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]Drivers
cat @ mint-kitty : ~ $ dpkg -l | grep mesa
ii libegl1-mesa:amd64 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 free implementation of the EGL API -- runtime
ii libegl1-mesa-dev:amd64 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 free implementation of the EGL API -- development files
ii libgl1-mesa-dev:amd64 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 free implementation of the OpenGL API -- GLX development files
ii libgl1-mesa-dev:i386 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 i386 free implementation of the OpenGL API -- GLX development files
ii libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 free implementation of the OpenGL API -- DRI modules
ii libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 i386 free implementation of the OpenGL API -- DRI modules
ii libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 free implementation of the OpenGL API -- GLX runtime
ii libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 i386 free implementation of the OpenGL API -- GLX runtime
ii libglapi-mesa:amd64 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 free implementation of the GL API -- shared library
ii libglapi-mesa:i386 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 i386 free implementation of the GL API -- shared library
ii libgles1-mesa:amd64 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 free implementation of the OpenGL|ES 1.x API -- runtime
ii libgles2-mesa:amd64 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 free implementation of the OpenGL|ES 2.x API -- runtime
ii libgles2-mesa-dev:amd64 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 free implementation of the OpenGL|ES 2.x API -- development files
ii libglu1-mesa:amd64 9.0.0-2.1 amd64 Mesa OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii libglu1-mesa:i386 9.0.0-2.1 i386 Mesa OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii libglu1-mesa-dev:amd64 9.0.0-2.1 amd64 Mesa OpenGL utility library -- development files
ii libosmesa6:amd64 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 Mesa Off-screen rendering extension
ii libosmesa6:i386 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 i386 Mesa Off-screen rendering extension
ii libosmesa6-dev:amd64 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 Mesa Off-screen rendering extension -- development files
ii libwayland-egl1-mesa:amd64 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 implementation of the Wayland EGL platform -- runtime
ii mesa-common-dev:amd64 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 Developer documentation for Mesa
ii mesa-common-dev:i386 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 i386 Developer documentation for Mesa
ii mesa-utils 8.3.0-1 amd64 Miscellaneous Mesa GL utilities
ii mesa-vdpau-drivers:amd64 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 Mesa VDPAU video acceleration drivers
cat @ mint-kitty : ~ $ dpkg -l | grep intel
ii intel-microcode 3.20151106.1 amd64 Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs
ii libdrm-intel1:amd64 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.16.04.1 amd64 Userspace interface to intel-specific kernel DRM services -- runtime
ii libdrm-intel1:i386 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.16.04.1 i386 Userspace interface to intel-specific kernel DRM services -- runtime
ii libpresage-data 0.9.1-1.1ubuntu2 all intelligent predictive text entry platform (data files)
rc libpresage1:amd64 0.9.1-0ubuntu2 amd64 intelligent predictive text entry platform (shared library)
ii libpresage1v5:amd64 0.9.1-1.1ubuntu2 amd64 intelligent predictive text entry platform (shared library)
ii pyprompter 0.9.1-1.1ubuntu2 all intelligent predictive wxPython text editor
ii python-presage 0.9.1-1.1ubuntu2 amd64 intelligent predictive text entry platform (Python binding)
ii whois 5.2.11 amd64 intelligent WHOIS client
ii wvdial 1.61-4.1 amd64 intelligent Point-to-Point Protocol dialer
ii xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1 amd64 X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver
Rebooting or completely obliterating Cinnamon fixes it until Cinnamon is up for around 20 minutes, then the problem starts happening.
kolorafa
commented
8 years ago How can someone verify that cinnamon is not in software render mode? I did a test by loggin out and in to "Cinnamon (software)" and didn't see any difference, the same cpu usage and the same cpu usage behavior.
glxinfo |grep render direct rendering: Yes
When on "idle" just with (10+) opened windows chrome, terminals etc:
$ top -d 1 | grep cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,8m 1,445g 29,4 12,3 2925:48 S cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,8m 1,445g 21,6 12,3 2925:48 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,8m 1,445g 27,5 12,3 2925:48 S cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,8m 1,445g 24,5 12,3 2925:48 S cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,8m 1,445g 29,4 12,3 2925:49 S cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,8m 1,445g 26,5 12,3 2925:49 S cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,8m 1,445g 25,7 12,3 2925:49 S cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,8m 1,445g 31,1 12,3 2925:49 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,8m 1,445g 21,8 12,3 2925:50 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,8m 1,445g 29,4 12,3 2925:50 S cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,8m 1,445g 23,5 12,3 2925:50 S cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,8m 1,445g 19,6 12,3 2925:50 S cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,8m 1,445g 21,6 12,3 2925:51 S cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,8m 1,445g 23,5 12,3 2925:51 S cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,8m 1,445g 24,5 12,3 2925:51 S cinnamon
When moving any window:
$ top -d 1 | grep cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,0m 1,445g 64,7 12,3 2926:07 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,0m 1,445g 21,6 12,3 2926:07 S cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,0m 1,445g 45,6 12,3 2926:08 R cinnamon 874 kolorafa 20 0 1021,3m 19,6m 1,0 0,2 4:34.83 S cinnamon-settin 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,0m 1,445g 69,6 12,3 2926:08 S cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,0m 1,445g 79,2 12,3 2926:09 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,9m 1,446g 87,3 12,3 2926:10 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,9m 1,446g 76,5 12,3 2926:11 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,9m 1,446g 76,5 12,3 2926:12 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,9m 1,446g 77,2 12,3 2926:13 R cinnamon 874 kolorafa 20 0 1021,3m 19,6m 1,0 0,2 4:34.84 S cinnamon-settin 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,9m 1,446g 80,4 12,3 2926:13 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,0m 1,446g 79,4 12,3 2926:14 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,0m 1,446g 81,4 12,3 2926:15 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,0m 1,446g 82,4 12,3 2926:16 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,0m 1,446g 74,5 12,3 2926:17 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,0m 1,446g 77,5 12,3 2926:17 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,9m 1,445g 78,4 12,3 2926:19 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2773,9m 1,445g 76,5 12,3 2926:20 R cinnamon
when running pavucontrol on an active workspace (only when on active the cpu spikes):
$ top -d 1 | grep cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,1m 1,446g 88,2 12,3 2927:42 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,1m 1,446g 91,1 12,3 2927:43 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,1m 1,446g 86,3 12,3 2927:44 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,1m 1,446g 91,2 12,3 2927:45 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,1m 1,446g 89,2 12,3 2927:46 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,1m 1,446g 87,3 12,3 2927:47 S cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,1m 1,446g 92,2 12,3 2927:48 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,1m 1,446g 90,2 12,3 2927:49 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,1m 1,446g 89,2 12,3 2927:49 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,1m 1,446g 90,2 12,3 2927:50 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,1m 1,446g 90,2 12,3 2927:51 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,1m 1,446g 85,3 12,3 2927:52 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2774,1m 1,446g 88,3 12,3 2927:53 R cinnamon
While running glxgears:
$ glxgears Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate. 297 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.233 FPS 301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.025 FPS 301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.017 FPS ^C
1058 kolorafa 20 0 2785,3m 1,450g 93,1 12,4 2946:21 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2785,3m 1,450g 95,1 12,4 2946:22 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2785,2m 1,450g 104,9 12,4 2946:23 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2785,2m 1,450g 94,1 12,4 2946:24 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2785,2m 1,450g 92,2 12,4 2946:25 R cinnamon 1058 kolorafa 20 0 2785,2m 1,450g 94,1 12,4 2946:26 R cinnamon
OS: Arch Antergos OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 260/PCIe/SSE2 Cpu: 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5140 @ 2.33GHz HP Workstation xv6400 Cinnamon 3.0.7
On gnome i had problem with games fps, like 5fps... After installing cinnamon (without reinstalling) i get easily 50fps, but the overall experience is cpu-hungry and for now (11 days uptime 24h/day) somehow it's starting to get to me that cinnamon probably works in software rendering mode and i don't know what to test/do other that trying to reinstall or switch to something else, but i really like cinnamon interface, more than gnome.
I would try Mint, but In the past i did try linux and did go back to windows because somehow every distro upgrade ended in failure ... And after years failing with disto upgrades on debian servers i somehow got burned by 'frozen' distros...
Maybe someone could recommend some rolling distro with best Cinnamon support? Or how to debug why cinnamon uses so much from my (old/ancient) cpu.
mainmachine
commented
8 years ago @kolorafa - Manjaro with Cinnamon is pretty great. Couldn't wrap my head around pacman and the AUR, so I went back to Ubuntu as a base pretty fast, but it was easy to set up and worked quite well.
JosephMcc
commented
8 years ago @kolorafa I actually have the exact same video card that you do. I don't see those issues with Cinnamon. I do have a Core I7 instead of the Xeons but moving windows will maybe cause my cpu usage to 5%. I've had this machine for quite some time and will say that the Nvidia drivers have not been great. My system is far more stable on the open source driver.
kolorafa
commented
8 years ago I was looking into memory usage, (as i did hit 12GB usage) while closing chrome and some random apps (like nemo that did use 3GB ram) the last thing was cinnamon that did use 1.5GB of ram.
So i did ALT+F2 "r" ENTER cinnamon did restart and now it uses 390MB idle cpu went down from 25% to 5% moving any window did go down from 95% to 40% pavucontrol from 95% to 20% glxgears from 95% to 19%
It's not a problem to restart cinnamon every few days, as you don't lose any windows, all running stuff still run, but i hope eventually it will get fixed.
So for people that encounter this problem, try to restart cinnamon as a temporary fix
alt+f2, type r and enter
JosephMcc
commented
8 years ago @kolorafa We have had other people report high memory usage from Cinnamon that none of us can manage to reproduce. Since we use the same graphics hardware, would you mind providing some more info? For me, using alt+f2 and r, restarting cinnamon gives me around 180mb memory usage. After an uptime of a couple days it never goes above 210.
I would be curious
The info would be appreciated so I could try to reproduce that level of memory usage.
kolorafa
commented
8 years ago Bugs that i encounter:
cinnamon now use 452,2m , but i have more windows
I could provide access to my machine if that would help gathering data.
jezekus
commented
7 years ago Hello everybody, I'm experiencing the quite same problem on my Lenovo T440.
Even there is nothing moving on the screen cinnamon --replace process is "ticking" up to 10% CPU on regular timeframe like 1 sec.
When there is something - window move, opening new windows or video playing this process is going CPU high up to 70%
I'm concerned about it as it drains the battery and won't allow idling of CPU during office work -writing emails, documents, im etc. Which should not need too much CPU power.
Running up to date Fedora 24
uname -a Linux nb1697 4.8.6-201.fc24.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 3 14:38:57 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[jezek@nb1697 ~]$ cinnamon --version Cinnamon 3.0.7
[jezek@nb1697 ~]$ head -15 /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 69 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4300U CPU @ 1.90GHz stepping : 1 microcode : 0x1f cpu MHz : 1908.416 cache size : 3072 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0
[jezek@nb1697 ~]$ lspci -v |grep -A 15 VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 220c Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46 Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at 3000 [size=64] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915
Is there anything I could help with ? Logs? Tests?
leigh123linux
commented
7 years ago @jezekus
I'm not seeing this issue with my T410 with F24 cinnamon-3.0.x. I no longer use F24 on it as I have moved onto F25 cinnamon-3.2.x (still not seeing this issue).
F24 & F25 wont be getting any more 3.0.x updates
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/leigh123linux/cinnamon-next/
genail
commented
7 years ago I can confirm that this issue is still in effect on Mint 18 with Cinnamon 3.0.7.
uname -a Linux highwind 4.4.0-21-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 18 18:33:37 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
head -15 /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model : 10 model name : AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1075T Processor stepping : 0 microcode : 0x10000bf cpu MHz : 800.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 6 core id : 0 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0
lspci -v |grep -A 15 VGA Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64 Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=64 I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff Memory behind bridge: fde00000-fdefffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fdd00000-fddfffff
00:14.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18 Memory at fe028000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration Flags: fast devsel Capabilities:
-- 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GTX 650] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GK107 [GeForce GTX 650] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27 Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at de000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] I/O ports at ef00 [size=128] [virtual] Expansion ROM at fc000000 [disabled] [size=512K] Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: nvidia Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_367, nvidia_367_drm 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GK107 HDMI Audio Controller Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 Memory at fcffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
christophra
commented
7 years ago I've had this issue of high CPU usage when moving windows as well. For me it was exclusively associated with the applet "sticky@scollins".
ghost
commented
7 years ago I have this problem (on a laptop with, only, inbuilt Intel graphics), having had to reinstall Cinnamon. I notice that in the 'Melange' debugger log I have this report: 'Cinnamon Software Rendering mode enabled'. However, I receive no other notice that that mode is enabled.
I have trouble enabling the hardware rendering. Reinstalling my Intel graphics drivers didn't work. Nor did
sudo update-rc.d -f mdm remove sudo update-rc.d mdm defaults
Now, resetting Cinnamon settings - via 'troubleshooting' (via right-clicking the panel) did work, once, and only until I rebooted; and now doing that reset seems not to help at all . .
ghost
commented
7 years ago The following may be worth noting, both
(1) perhaps as a means to improve Cinnamon (and I do think that it should always display the 'software rendering warning' upon login, if such rendering is being used; the problem should not, on occasion, be hidden in a log) and (2) to help others having problems with Cinnamon as Cinnamon is at present.
I restored my whole root partition from an image backup - and the problem persisted.
I restored my whole home partition from an image backup - and the problem was solved.
leigh123linux
commented
6 years ago Cinnamon 3.0.x is EOL, if you can reproduce with cinnamon 3.8.x feel free to file a new issue.
Just as the title says. Cinnamon uses high cpu whenever I move windows. It is using 45-85%.