[Solved] F27 Gnome (esp. Wayland) very slow after last update (4.14.11)
Hi,
Last Thursday, I worked a while on Fedora 27 (this is a dual boot system with Windows 10), everything was working fine, and I updated the system with the dnf upgrade command, but didn't reboot at the time, and then I turned off the computer and I haven't booted on Fedora since this morning, where I immediately noticed that everything was extremely sluggish, even on the login screen. The CPU usage is like 90% percent on every core of my AMD Ryzen 1700X and graphically, the Gnome desktop is very slow. My dnf history is as follows:
ID | Command line | Date et time | Action(s) | Modified
9 | update | 2018-01-04 17:58 | E, I, U | 38 EE
8 | install code | 2017-12-30 16:06 | Install | 2
7 | update | 2017-12-30 16:01 | I, U | 161 EE
6 | install https://download | 2017-12-30 15:54 | Install | 1
5 | install https://download | 2017-12-30 15:53 | Install | 1
4 | install gnome-tweak-tool | 2017-12-30 15:39 | Install | 2
3 | install chrome-gnome-she | 2017-12-30 15:37 | Install | 2
2 | upgrade | 2017-12-19 13:59 | I, O, U | 559 E<
1 | | 2017-11-05 08:29 | Install | 1568 >E
The installed kernels that I have now:
- 4.14.11
- 4.14.8
- 4.14.6
It was update #7 that installed version 4.14.8, and with that version everything worked fine before update #9, which installed 4.14.11. But now, if I select 4.14.8 on the GRUB boot menu, I have the same huge performance issue. On the login screen, if I choose GNOME on Xorg, then it works much better, but it's still sluggish, and CPU usage is higher than before on idle.
Finally, if I boot on 4.14.6, performance is normal and the Gnome desktop is very smooth, as it was before update #9. So that means that it's probably not the kernel update alone that causes this issue, otherwise it should still work fine with 4.14.8, as it used to before update #9, right?
My graphics card is an nvidia GeForce 1070, and I haven't tried installing the proprietary driver yet.
Also, I cannot rollback my updates, because if I do dnf history rollback 8, I get:
... No package appstream-data-0:27-7.fc27.noarch available. Error : A transaction cannot be undone
So it seems that for now I can work by booting on 4.14.6, but what steps should I take to try to solve this problem? Not sure if this problem is related to the Meltdown patch. Thanks in advance
You mentioned that your cpu shows 90% utilization. It might be helpful to know what program is using so many cpu cycles. You can use the top command to view that information. Also, GNOME performance is not impacted in a meaningful way by the recent security patches.
Thank you for your answer! I've just edited the title to say that my problem is solved… and I didn’t have anything to do about it. After a couple of additional reboots (which I had already done to try the different kernel versions), everything was back to normal. I had opened the system monitor to check which process was using so much CPU, which was gnome-shell. I have no idea what happened and I am sorry for the now useless post.
Hi that's not that useless I have the same problem. I'm currently on 4.13.9 no problem but I have an issue with the latest kernel. My graphic card is Geforce 1050Ti I had problems with nouveau so I installed proprietary driver through rpmfusion (It works great). Same symptoms login super slow. Without touching anything gnome-shell is up 20% cpu usage (i5 7600). touching the mouse and it climbs up to 300%...
Experiencing the same with my GTX1070 card. I've found that if I boot into my windows partition first, then do a soft reboot into the Fedora partition, then Gnome works fine. Otherwise if I cold-boot into Fedora, then I have the problematic behaviour.