Bug 522016 - system is extremely slow when booting to the login screen and desktop, high X CPU usage
Summary: system is extremely slow when booting to the login screen and desktop, high X...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-intel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kristian Høgsberg
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F12Blocker, F12FinalBlocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-09-09 06:55 UTC by Caspar Zhang
Modified: 2009-10-13 20:00 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-10-13 20:00:15 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
smoltprofile.txt (6.67 KB, text/plain)
2009-09-09 06:55 UTC, Caspar Zhang
no flags Details
Xorg.Log (353.29 KB, text/plain)
2009-09-09 06:57 UTC, Caspar Zhang
no flags Details
dmesg info (47.55 KB, text/plain)
2009-09-09 06:57 UTC, Caspar Zhang
no flags Details
Xorg log file -- Dell Inspiron Mini 9 (39.46 KB, text/plain)
2009-09-13 21:31 UTC, Michel Lind
no flags Details
lspci -vv (Dell Inspiron Mini 9) (11.78 KB, text/plain)
2009-09-13 21:32 UTC, Michel Lind
no flags Details
lspci -nn (2.65 KB, text/plain)
2009-10-01 19:21 UTC, Martin Sourada
no flags Details

Description Caspar Zhang 2009-09-09 06:55:41 UTC
Created attachment 360166 [details]
smoltprofile.txt

Description of problem:

When turned off the KMS and try to boot system, it became very very slow, I kept waiting for 15 minutes to see the desktop environment(While KMS enabled in the cmdline, system went into desktop at a normal speed). The cursor was blinking with "busy" state, just like the system was loading many applications.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.8.0-11.20090908.fc12.i686

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Follow the instruction: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_intelvideo_nokms
2.
3.
  
Actual results:

System is slow to enter the desktop environment.

Expected results:

System should enter the desktop environment at a normal speed.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Caspar Zhang 2009-09-09 06:57:00 UTC
Created attachment 360167 [details]
Xorg.Log

Comment 2 Caspar Zhang 2009-09-09 06:57:22 UTC
Created attachment 360168 [details]
dmesg info

Comment 3 Caspar Zhang 2009-09-10 07:31:58 UTC
I use Testday-20090909.iso today for testing, and I found when KMS is enabled, the system is still very slow. I could see a high CPU usage(about 15%-35%) of X process on top.

Comment 4 Martin Sourada 2009-09-13 17:13:23 UTC
I noticed everything in X is terribly slow, I haven't even managed to log in from init 5, startx from init 3 got me working, but it looks like screen is refreshed about once per second and starting even small application like the run app applet took about 15 minutes... Everything in tty seems to work in normal speed though and after switch from X the CPU usage drops after a while from 100 % (used up by X) to almost 0. I've used the Testday-20090909.iso. It's pretty much same with and without KMS.

Comment 5 Michel Lind 2009-09-13 21:31:16 UTC
Created attachment 360857 [details]
Xorg log file -- Dell Inspiron Mini 9

On my Dell Inspiron Mini 9 (Intel 945GME), the latest batch of updates:

$ rpm -q xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-drv-intel
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.99.900-1.fc12.i686
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.8.0-13.20090909.fc12.i686

causes everything to go much slower than before. The system is more-or-less usable with metacity, but I used to be able to run mutter/libgnome-shell with no problem. Now
- with KMS, mutter is totally unusable: the windows would flickr on and off, while the background is displayed OK
- without KMS, mutter is terribly slow. had to switch to metacity to get a usable system

Comment 6 Michel Lind 2009-09-13 21:32:31 UTC
Created attachment 360858 [details]
lspci -vv (Dell Inspiron Mini 9)

Comment 7 Caspar Zhang 2009-09-14 07:29:25 UTC
add Regression keyword. Since this bug does not exist in 20090908 but exsits in 20090909. 

intel driver in 20090909 was xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.8.0-13.20090909.fc12.i686 while xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.8.0-11.20090908.fc12.i686 in 20090908. the xorg-x11-server-Xorg version was the same.

Comment 8 Qian Cai 2009-10-01 13:17:57 UTC
Apparently a regression in intel driver, so propose F12 blocker.

Comment 9 Adam Williamson 2009-10-01 19:04:17 UTC
lspci -nn (not -vv) output from all suffering from this problem would be nice.

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Comment 10 Martin Sourada 2009-10-01 19:21:13 UTC
Created attachment 363392 [details]
lspci -nn

My lspcsi -nn output. I hope it's OK that it's from F11. I have to also add that I had this issue in the Testday-20090909.iso but not in Snapshot 3 Live (haven't looked which version of the driver is there though).

Comment 11 Adam Williamson 2009-10-01 19:35:10 UTC
yeah, doesn't matter what release it's from.

working in snap3 is hopeful...could you and other sufferers test the latest nightly live CD:

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/desktop/

and see how that behaves?

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Comment 12 Martin Sourada 2009-10-02 23:38:09 UTC
(In reply to comment #11)
> working in snap3 is hopeful...could you and other sufferers test the latest
> nightly live CD:
> 
> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/desktop/
> 
I've downloaded and tried desktop-i386-20090930.16.iso. I can confirm it works for me.
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.8.0-16.20090909.fc12.i686

Comment 13 Qian Cai 2009-10-10 09:31:48 UTC
Caspar, please try comment #11 when you are back from the vacation.

Comment 14 Caspar Zhang 2009-10-12 04:54:19 UTC
(In reply to comment #13)
> Caspar, please try comment #11 when you are back from the vacation.  

System works on desktop-i386-20091010.21.iso

Comment 15 Caspar Zhang 2009-10-12 04:57:34 UTC
I tried both with and without KMS, system ran normally when login to desktop. on desktop-i386-20091010.21.iso

Comment 16 Adam Williamson 2009-10-13 20:00:15 UTC
I think we can close this, then. Thanks!

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