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? > >>>> >>>> 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. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > I should add that the problem in Totem and Firefox worsens as the video takes-up more screen space - smaller windows (same resolution source file) render more smoothly. Again, VLC is just fine full screen, no noticeable performance issue. -- Libre Video http://librevideo.org -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
