Comment # 169 on bug 1112824 from Dead Mozay

(In reply to Robert Munteanu from comment #168)
> (In reply to Timo Jyrinki from comment #167)
> > Something on my mind is to check that 20181015 <-> 20181018 snapshot delta
> > mentioned in comment #160 and see if the difference is as big as what I have
> > there on the video between distributions.
> 
> I think this is the first step that can be done. I unfortunately don't have
> a spare machine and the time to run the tests, but I think a binary search
> in the updates that were applied between 20181015 and 20181018 would help
> pinpoint the root cause.
> 
> Assuming that the 20181018 snapshot has broken performance, there are N
> package updates between 20181015 and 20181018. One can split these N package
> updates in N1 and N2. It should happen that one of these contains the
> problematic update, so applying N1 (for instance) should reproduce the
> problem but not N2. And so on and so forth.
> 
> If anyone has the possibility to do this I think it would be a worthwhile
> exercise.

It is not necessary to have another PC, you can use the virtualbox 6.x version
and choose VMSVGA as the graphic controller, there is very good performance in
GNOME, there is a list of updates here
> http://mirror.tspu.ru/opensuse/tumbleweed/iso/Changes.20181018.txt