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PostPosted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:17 pm    Post subject: Slow OpenGL When Moving Mouse In X Reply with quote

Hallo,

I'm experiencing a weird problem after upgrading from nvidia-drivers-310.32 to any newer version of nvidia-drivers (unpatched from portage).

OpenGL applications such as glxgears slow to a crawl in X when moving the mouse. Only when moving the mouse (depending on the WM, only when moving it over -windows-). It is so noticeable! Also, X uses a -tremendous- amount of CPU when the mouse is moving over any window.

Code:

root@alchemy:/home/fb# lspci | grep 660
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 660 Ti] (rev a1)

root@alchemy:/home/fb# uname -a
Linux alchemy 3.8.2-gentoo #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Mar 8 12:27:25 CST 2013 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

root@alchemy:/home/fb# dmesg | grep NVRM
[    4.505110] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  313.26  Wed Feb 27 13:04:31 PST 2013


Is anyone else experiencing such an issue?

Downgrading to nvidia-drivers-310.32 seems to fix it for me. However, I would really like to use the new 313.26 nVidia drivers, so if anyone knows what could be wrong or how to fix it, please share your information! Thanks. :>

Edit:

Changed the post to reflect that my recent upgrade to a newer kernel has nothing to do with this, since it happens with older kernels as well when upgrading to newer nVidia drivers.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 9:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

As a guess, try these kernel options:
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CONFIG_COMPACTION=n
CONFIG_KSM=n
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y  # Avoids MMCONFIG, unwanted in Nvidia's README
USB_EHCI_TT_NEWSCHED=y  # Better USB handling
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

PaulBredbury wrote:
As a guess, try these kernel options:
Code:
CONFIG_COMPACTION=n
CONFIG_KSM=n
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y  # Avoids MMCONFIG, unwanted in Nvidia's README
USB_EHCI_TT_NEWSCHED=y  # Better USB handling


Thank you for the suggestion!

I am afraid it did not help, though... I enabled CONFIG_KSM (all of the others were already set), and made sure to set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1. It did not make any difference. :<

glxgears while the mouse is moving:

Code:

30882 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6176.351 FPS
15660 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3107.116 FPS
18398 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3676.764 FPS
28944 frames in 5.1 seconds = 5719.027 FPS
32981 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6531.477 FPS


glxgears with the mouse sitting still:

Code:

85565 frames in 5.0 seconds = 17112.891 FPS
85591 frames in 5.0 seconds = 17118.021 FPS
85655 frames in 5.0 seconds = 17130.883 FPS
85636 frames in 5.0 seconds = 17127.184 FPS
85625 frames in 5.0 seconds = 17124.846 FPS


So, so weird.

Edit:

Some new information!

I have disabled compositing inside of my WM (I use KDE4) and now I get a framerate similar to what I get with older drivers, even when the mouse is moving:

Code:

94571 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18914.150 FPS
94634 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18926.680 FPS
94795 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18959.000 FPS
94833 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18966.568 FPS
95032 frames in 5.0 seconds = 19006.244 FPS


However, there is something VERY odd going on. If I hold a key down to rotate the gears inside of glxgears -while moving the mouse over the window-, the animation is noticeably skippy and jerky and even locks up, although the framerate remains unchanged.

If I hold a key down to rotate it -without- moving the mouse, the animation stays fluid as it should. In both cases, the framerate is the same with compositing turned off.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 3:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"n" means No, i.e. disable. So if you enabled KSM, you did the OPPOSITE of what I suggested ;)
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 4:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

PaulBredbury wrote:
"n" means No, i.e. disable. So if you enabled KSM, you did the OPPOSITE of what I suggested ;)


Good catch!

I _carefully_ set the settings you gave this time, but the problem remains the same.

Can anyone verify if this problem does/doesn't affect them as well?
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