Bug 46651 - Noticeable framerate drops when moving mouse in Gnome 3
Summary: Noticeable framerate drops when moving mouse in Gnome 3
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/Radeon (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Whiteboard:
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Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-02-26 09:50 UTC by mikey
Modified: 2018-06-12 19:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
i915 platform:
i915 features:


Attachments
glxgears output (1.34 KB, text/plain)
2012-02-26 09:50 UTC, mikey
no flags Details
glxinfo (24.46 KB, text/plain)
2012-02-26 09:54 UTC, mikey
no flags Details
Xorg.0.log (58.18 KB, text/x-log)
2012-02-26 09:56 UTC, mikey
no flags Details

Description mikey 2012-02-26 09:50:27 UTC
Created attachment 57669 [details]
glxgears output

There is a noticeable framerate drop with radeon driver in Gnome 3 when moving mouse which is not present in Openbox. 

System:


3.8 GHz PhenomII x4 core AMD processsor
4GB DDR3 RAM
Sapphire Radeon 6950 graphics card


Running glxgears in Gnome 3 with vsync enabled:

Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
291 frames in 5.0 seconds = 58.076 FPS
288 frames in 5.0 seconds = 57.430 FPS
289 frames in 5.0 seconds = 57.629 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.023 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.023 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.023 FPS
293 frames in 5.1 seconds = 57.650 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.031 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.022 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.023 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.022 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.025 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.009 FPS
289 frames in 5.0 seconds = 57.630 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.020 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.022 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.022 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.022 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.023 FPS
289 frames in 5.0 seconds = 57.629 FPS
277 frames in 5.0 seconds = 55.237 FPS
277 frames in 5.0 seconds = 55.235 FPS
276 frames in 5.0 seconds = 55.037 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.021 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.023 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.022 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.021 FPS
277 frames in 5.0 seconds = 55.237 FPS
XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
      after 17052 requests (17052 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

The ~60 FPS rates are recorded when the mouse is not moving and the <58 FPS readings are when the mouse is moving.
Comment 1 mikey 2012-02-26 09:54:53 UTC
Created attachment 57670 [details]
glxinfo
Comment 2 mikey 2012-02-26 09:56:27 UTC
Created attachment 57671 [details]
Xorg.0.log
Comment 3 mikey 2012-02-26 10:03:13 UTC
$yum info xorg-x11-drv-ati.x86_64 

gives:

Installed Packages
Name        : xorg-x11-drv-ati
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 6.14.3
Release     : 3.20111125git534fb6e41.fc16
Size        : 1.2 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : updates
Summary     : Xorg X11 ati video driver
URL         : http://www.x.org
License     : MIT
Description : X.Org X11 ati video driver.
Comment 4 Adam Jackson 2018-06-12 19:07:08 UTC
Mass closure: This bug has been untouched for more than six years, and is not
obviously still valid. Please reopen this bug or file a new report if you continue to experience issues with current releases.


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