Thank you Alberts, yup that indeed increased the performance a lot: xenial-metacity --no-composite: 30407 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6081.219 FPS
ppa-metacity --no-composite: 37147 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7429.385 FPS marco --no-composite: 37146 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7429.081 FPS Alberts, Dmitry, please also note that Ubuntu now allows publishing upstream microreleases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#New_upstream_microreleases For example, for LTSP, I plan on maintaining a branch with bug fixes only, and I'll be SRUing it regularly to 16.04, without having to go through the bureaucracy of filing one SRU for each bug fix separately. Maybe something similar could be done for flashback? :) In any case, thanks a lot, you guys are awesome! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1566157 Title: Metacity's compositing is too slow Status in metacity package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I did the following benchmarks between `metacity --no-composite`, `metacity --composite`, and `compiz`, in Ubuntu 16.04. First, I disabled vsync: $ cat ~/.drirc <device screen="0" driver="dri2"> <application name="Default"> <option name="vblank_mode" value="0"/> </application> </device> Then I ran glxgears as follows: $ metacity --no-composite --replace & sleep 5 && glxgears & sleep 20 && killall glxgears 29564 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5912.721 FPS 29729 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5945.777 FPS $ metacity --composite --replace & sleep 5 && glxgears & sleep 20 && killall glxgears 10366 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2073.057 FPS 10194 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2038.702 FPS $ compiz --replace & sleep 5 && glxgears & sleep 20 && killall glxgears 37633 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7522.813 FPS 37990 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7597.965 FPS As a second set of benchmarks, I ran glxgears -fullscreen as follows: $ metacity --no-composite --replace & sleep 5 && glxgears -fullscreen & sleep 20 && killall glxgears 1652 frames in 5.0 seconds = 330.296 FPS 1667 frames in 5.0 seconds = 333.281 FPS $ metacity --composite --replace & sleep 5 && glxgears -fullscreen & sleep 20 && killall glxgears 886 frames in 5.0 seconds = 177.007 FPS 891 frames in 5.0 seconds = 178.099 FPS $ compiz --replace & sleep 5 && glxgears -fullscreen & sleep 20 && killall glxgears 1830 frames in 5.0 seconds = 365.868 FPS 1847 frames in 5.0 seconds = 369.242 FPS Normalized results (with compiz=100): ================================ Windowed: metacity --no-composite: 78 FPS metacity --composite: 27 FPS compiz: 100 FPS Full screen: metacity --no-composite: 90 FPS metacity --composite: 48 FPS compiz: 100 FPS So `metacity --composite` in this test was about 2 times slower than `metacity --no-composite` and about 3 times slower than `compiz`. This test was done an "Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4440 CPU @ 3.10GHz" CPU, with the following embedded graphics card: $ lspci -nn -k | grep -A 2 VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0412] (rev 06) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [1458:d000] Kernel driver in use: i915 I'll upload more tests if I find anything newsworthy. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/1566157/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
