Slow and sluggish system responsiveness + system-level crashes since recent updates
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mir |
New
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High
|
Unassigned | ||
| Unity System Compositor |
New
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Running 13.10 with unity-system-
Since the updates that arrived on 9 September system responsiveness has suddenly become very sluggish -- this manifests most particularly in keyboard input being very unresponsive, although it doesn't seem like any key-presses are actually being lost.
The system as a whole seems very slow, as if resources are being hogged somewhere, and this culminates in system-level crashes and the graphical system restarting (with my laptop and external monitors reverting to mirrored display).
The problems persist with today's updates (11 September) but vanish if unity-system-
Unfortunately due to a separate issue I'm having with apport's handling of system-level crashes (cf. bug #1223249) I haven't been able to generate effective crash reports :-(
| Joseph Wakeling (webdrake) wrote | #1 |
| Joseph Wakeling (webdrake) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in unity-system-compositor: | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| Changed in mir: | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| Changed in xmir: | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| Joseph Wakeling (webdrake) wrote | #3 |
| Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote | #4 |
Graphics info for my system (ThinkPad T420):
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device 21ce
Kernel driver in use: i915