On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 07:34:56AM -0400, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote: > On 09/11/2016 02:19 PM, stan wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 22:04:22 -0400 > > Basil Mohamed Gohar <basilgohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >>> On 09/08/2016 03:44 AM, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote: > >>>> Even since I installed F24 on both my desktop as well as my laptop > >>>> I've noticed a severe performance degradation in terms of video > >>>> playback. > > > > Is this using a browser, or a player on the system, like vlc or mplayer? > > What does your 'severe performance degradation' consist of? Dropped > > frames? Lock up? Artifacts? Could network congestion or speed be a > > factor? Or do you just mean that the gui is slow to respond? > > Okay, I've found the issue is in Firefox and Totem, but not VLC. So, > apparently some form of acceleration is borked but not another (guessing). I saw similar video performance degradation in firefox. But when I switch to full screen view performance is fine. Maybe firefox does not use GPU acceleration (vdpau in my case) properly when viewing in a window, but does so when in full screen. > >>>> > >>>> I've noticed this performance issue in both MATE (my preferred DE) > >>>> as well as Gnome. I have AMD CPUs with AMD GPUs (the laptop is an > >>>> APU but also has a discrete card as well). > >>>> > >>>> I don't want to use devel just to report a problem, but I'd also > > > > This really belongs on users. You can subscribe to users by > > sending an email message to > > users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > with subscribe in the subject line, and from email address > > basilgohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > >>>> like some help in diagnosing the issue so that a fix can be found > >>>> – but unfortunately I don't really know where to start. > > > > What does top show happening on your system when you notice the problem? > > How about iotop? Is there lots of disk usage happening? Are there > > things like locate or other search aids running in the background to > > update their databases? Are you updating your system when it seems > > slow? Is your system memory constrained? Other cron scheduled jobs? > > This usually is really heavy early in system usage as they build their > > databases, and then tapers off as only incremental changes are made. > > > > It's unlikely to be due to F24, more likely to be due to your situation. > > There's nothing else going on in the systems - this is an upgrade from > F22, so there's not any initialization processes going on. I did the > upgrade weeks ago, anyway. CPU does spike, but that's normal for this > kind of video playback, and it's definitely not maxed-out. > > -- > > devel mailing list > > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > -- > Libre Video > http://librevideo.org > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- ======-------- Marcel J.E. Mol MESA Consulting B.V. =======--------- ph. +31-(0)6-54724868 =======--------- marcel@xxxxxxx Nootdorp __==== www.mesa.nl ---____U_n_i_x______I_n_t_e_r_n_e_t____ The Netherlands ____ They couldn't think of a number, Linux user 1148 -- www linuxcounter net so they gave me a name! -- Rupert Hine -- www ruperthine com -- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
