** Description changed: + edit: i found the actual cause, disregard everything bellow the arrows + + Seems like this bug: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/8/445 + + The ubuntu kernels started to be compiled with CMA on. Which broke + radeon. Which means that you should be getting loads of duplicates. + + Anyway, i 'fixed' it with adding a command line switch to + + GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash cma=0" + + in /etc/default/grub + + and running + sudo update-grub + + <<<<<<<<< old wrong info starts here >>>>>>>>>> + + Currently gnome shell occasionally has extreme performance problems so that they actually make the machine unresponsive. I'm attaching two oprof runs at the same time, one with xorg, the other with gnome shell, which are the processes top said were using the cpus. I actually started this instance of gnome-shell from a user console (because i had to kill the previous one and it didn't respawn. The operf runs of gnome-shell and Xorg killed themselves spontaneously for some reason: operf-record process killed by signal 13 operf-read process killed by signal 11 error running profiler - - For what it is worth here they are. I have dbg libs installed for xorg, the kernel, gnome-shell and the ati driver in preparation of this but i think it might have been unnecessary to pinpoint the cause because the console output of the gnome-shell session showed me this before i had to kill it (again): + For what it is worth here they are. I have dbg libs installed for xorg, + the kernel, gnome-shell and the ati driver in preparation of this but i + think it might have been unnecessary to pinpoint the cause because the + console output of the gnome-shell session showed me this before i had to + kill it (again): Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' - console.error: ghostery: - Message: TypeError: r.json is null - Stack: - checkLibraryVersion/<.onComplete@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> jar:file:///home/i30817/.mozilla/firefox/0lhxm7y0.cleaned/extensions/[email protected]!/bootstrap.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://firefox-at-ghostery-dot-com/ghostery/lib/background.js:2253:4 + console.error: ghostery: + Message: TypeError: r.json is null + Stack: + checkLibraryVersion/<.onComplete@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> jar:file:///home/i30817/.mozilla/firefox/0lhxm7y0.cleaned/extensions/[email protected]!/bootstrap.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://firefox-at-ghostery-dot-com/ghostery/lib/background.js:2253:4 emit@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/event/core.js:96:9 onreadystatechange@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> jar:file:///home/i30817/.mozilla/firefox/0lhxm7y0.cleaned/extensions/[email protected]!/bootstrap.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/request.js:98:7 Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' - console.error: ghostery: - Message: TypeError: r.json is null - Stack: - checkLibraryVersion/<.onComplete@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> jar:file:///home/i30817/.mozilla/firefox/0lhxm7y0.cleaned/extensions/[email protected]!/bootstrap.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://firefox-at-ghostery-dot-com/ghostery/lib/background.js:2253:4 + console.error: ghostery: + Message: TypeError: r.json is null + Stack: + checkLibraryVersion/<.onComplete@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> jar:file:///home/i30817/.mozilla/firefox/0lhxm7y0.cleaned/extensions/[email protected]!/bootstrap.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://firefox-at-ghostery-dot-com/ghostery/lib/background.js:2253:4 emit@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/event/core.js:96:9 onreadystatechange@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> jar:file:///home/i30817/.mozilla/firefox/0lhxm7y0.cleaned/extensions/[email protected]!/bootstrap.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/request.js:98:7 Killed - - My burning question is obviously, why the hell would a firefox extension make Xorg and gnome-shell unresponsive and not firefox, and don't you think you should fix it so its not possible? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.12.2-1ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-5.10-generic 3.16.0-rc6 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-5-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.4-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Fri Jul 25 22:25:34 2014 DisplayManager: gdm GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'" InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-05 (20 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140624) SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Description changed: edit: i found the actual cause, disregard everything bellow the arrows Seems like this bug: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/8/445 The ubuntu kernels started to be compiled with CMA on. Which broke radeon. Which means that you should be getting loads of duplicates. Anyway, i 'fixed' it with adding a command line switch to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash cma=0" in /etc/default/grub - and running + and running sudo update-grub + + You can check if you have this bug if you desktop get progressively slower and if dmesg is outputting lots of lines like this: + alloc_contig_range test_pages_isolated failed + + <<<<<<<<< old wrong info starts here >>>>>>>>>> - Currently gnome shell occasionally has extreme performance problems so that they actually make the machine unresponsive. I'm attaching two oprof runs at the same time, one with xorg, the other with gnome shell, which are the processes top said were using the cpus. I actually started this instance of gnome-shell from a user console (because i had to kill the previous one and it didn't respawn. The operf runs of gnome-shell and Xorg killed themselves spontaneously for some reason: operf-record process killed by signal 13 operf-read process killed by signal 11 error running profiler For what it is worth here they are. I have dbg libs installed for xorg, the kernel, gnome-shell and the ati driver in preparation of this but i think it might have been unnecessary to pinpoint the cause because the console output of the gnome-shell session showed me this before i had to kill it (again): Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' console.error: ghostery: Message: TypeError: r.json is null Stack: checkLibraryVersion/<.onComplete@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> jar:file:///home/i30817/.mozilla/firefox/0lhxm7y0.cleaned/extensions/[email protected]!/bootstrap.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://firefox-at-ghostery-dot-com/ghostery/lib/background.js:2253:4 emit@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/event/core.js:96:9 onreadystatechange@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> jar:file:///home/i30817/.mozilla/firefox/0lhxm7y0.cleaned/extensions/[email protected]!/bootstrap.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/request.js:98:7 Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' Window manager warning: Log level 16: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:3102: signal id '568' is invalid for instance '0x1ded8e0' console.error: ghostery: Message: TypeError: r.json is null Stack: checkLibraryVersion/<.onComplete@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> jar:file:///home/i30817/.mozilla/firefox/0lhxm7y0.cleaned/extensions/[email protected]!/bootstrap.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://firefox-at-ghostery-dot-com/ghostery/lib/background.js:2253:4 emit@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/event/core.js:96:9 onreadystatechange@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> jar:file:///home/i30817/.mozilla/firefox/0lhxm7y0.cleaned/extensions/[email protected]!/bootstrap.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/request.js:98:7 Killed My burning question is obviously, why the hell would a firefox extension make Xorg and gnome-shell unresponsive and not firefox, and don't you think you should fix it so its not possible? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.12.2-1ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-5.10-generic 3.16.0-rc6 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-5-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.4-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Fri Jul 25 22:25:34 2014 DisplayManager: gdm GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'" InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-05 (20 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140624) SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1348914 Title: performance problem with gnome-shell and xorg with firefox extension To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1348914/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
