Hi James thanks for the reply. Unfortunately this problem persists even after a reboot. I haven't noticed that it gets worse over time, it has been like this since I started up the machine. On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 at 15:03, James Knott wrote:

On 10/05/2018 08:51 AM, Chris Coutinho wrote:

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Even while editing a file or typing this email the entire screen pauses for half a second - every 5 seconds.

I mentioned similar a while ago, though I don't think it's on interval as you say. My experience is if I do something, such as press Alt-F4 to enter a command, it takes several seconds for what I type to appear, sometimes dropping the first character.

Another issue I've noticed is the system bogs down and eventually lock up. When this happens, there is steady disk activity and I can ping and get a response, but not use ssh to connect. The only solution is a reboot.

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Op vrijdag 5 oktober 2018 15:10:16 CEST schreef Chris Coutinho:

Gnome3 and X11.

On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 at 15:07, Knurpht-openSUSE wrote:

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Op vrijdag 5 oktober 2018 14:51:19 CEST schreef Chris Coutinho:

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Hello,

I recently installed Leap 15.0 on a workstation that has an nvidia graphics card installed (Quadro K2200), and since I've been using it for graphics work I've noticed that it continuously pauses. Even while editing a file or typing this email the entire screen pauses for half a second - every 5 seconds.

To say this is irritating would be an understatement.

I've tested both the main Leap 15.0 nvidia repository and the CUDA repository for SLES, and the behavior is the same. I'm currently running the following packages from the nvidia repository:

nvidia-computeG04 390.87-lp150.10.1 nvidia-gfxG04-kmp-default 390.87_k4.12.14_lp150.11-lp150.10.1 nvidia-glG04 390.87-lp150.10.1 x11-video-nvidiaG04 390.87-lp150.10.1

Does anyone here have any experience debugging this issue? Also, please let me know If there is a better place to report this.

Regards, Chris

Which DE? X or Wayland?

Strange, AFAIK GNOME should default to Wayland now.

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On 08/10/2018 14.20, Chris Coutinho wrote:

These are great ideas David, thanks for the input. The pauses occur as soon as I login to a graphical session, with no other applications or exotic services running in the background. The workstation has more than enough RAM that it doesn't swap - that's not the issue.

I checked accessing the workstation via SSH and the problem doesn't occur, it's primarily a graphics/desktop issue.

Then I would suggest trying a different desktop, and if no improvement, then try downgrade to an older nvidia driver. Or upgrade if there is a newer one. Then you can try the nvidia driver installed "the hard way", which allows you to try reporting the issue directly at nvidia forums. Ah, of course, you can also try the non-proprietary drivers. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)

On 10/08/2018 07:20 AM, Chris Coutinho wrote:

These are great ideas David, thanks for the input. The pauses occur as soon as I login to a graphical session, with no other applications or exotic services running in the background. The workstation has more than enough RAM that it doesn't swap - that's not the issue.

I checked accessing the workstation via SSH and the problem doesn't occur, it's primarily a graphics/desktop issue.

If it doesn't appear when accessing via ssh, then it is a desktop issue. If it only occurs once at desktop startup -- then it could be a whole host of desktop indexing services, desktop cache rebuilds, etc... If it occurs more than once after desktop startup -- well, it could still be desktop related, re-indexing, etc... I do not want any of that stuff running and I choose my desktops accordingly. If I were doing heavy graphics editing and wanted the machine dedicated to nothing but that task, I would be using fluxbox as the desktop (icewm or a stripped down lxde) or kde3. (well, I do use kde3 and fluxbox, as well as i3 for code work) The config for fluxbox is dead-bang simple, just install it, add whatever apps you want shown on rt-click on desktop to the ~/.fluxbox/menu file and whatever startup apps you DO want running in the ~/.fluxbox/startup file (both a plain-text files and the format is well described in each) Regardless of your desktop, you should be able to turn most of the background tasks off. Others will have to chime in on how as I haven't used the latest desktops - for just these reasons and I got tired of writing bug reports instead of working. The Nvidia driver troubleshooting suggested by Carlos are another good avenue. It could be driver related, but I would think that would be secondary to something running in the background. If you have ssh access, ssh into the box before logging in to your desktop, start 'top' (or similar app) and then start your desktop and your editing app, while keeping an eye on what top says is using all of your system resources. There is probably a simple way to log that info (or similar info from sysfs), but for the problems I've run across simply paying attention to top has been enough. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Tuesday, 9 October 2018 15:51:57 ACDT Basil Chupin wrote:

On 5/10/18 10:51 pm, Chris Coutinho wrote:

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Hello,

I recently installed Leap 15.0 on a workstation that has an nvidia graphics card installed (Quadro K2200), and since I've been using it for graphics work I've noticed that it continuously pauses. Even while editing a file or typing this email the entire screen pauses for half a second - every 5 seconds.

To say this is irritating would be an understatement.

I've tested both the main Leap 15.0 nvidia repository and the CUDA repository for SLES, and the behavior is the same. I'm currently running the following packages from the nvidia repository:

nvidia-computeG04 390.87-lp150.10.1 nvidia-gfxG04-kmp-default 390.87_k4.12.14_lp150.11-lp150.10.1 nvidia-glG04 390.87-lp150.10.1 x11-video-nvidiaG04 390.87-lp150.10.1

Does anyone here have any experience debugging this issue? Also, please let me know If there is a better place to report this.

Why aren't you using the Nvidia driver 390.87 which is here?:

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/137276/en-us

BC

The latest (current) releases are always found here: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/533434/linux/current-graphics-drive... Which reminds me - time to update (I'm a couple of versions behind). Thanks for the prompt to go look, BC. :) -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au CCNA #CSCO12880208 ============================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Tuesday, 9 October 2018 17:54:25 ACDT Basil Chupin wrote:

On 9/10/18 5:58 pm, Rodney Baker wrote:

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On Tuesday, 9 October 2018 15:51:57 ACDT Basil Chupin wrote:

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On 5/10/18 10:51 pm, Chris Coutinho wrote:

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Hello,

I recently installed Leap 15.0 on a workstation that has an nvidia graphics card installed (Quadro K2200), and since I've been using it for graphics work I've noticed that it continuously pauses. Even while editing a file or typing this email the entire screen pauses for half a second - every 5 seconds.

To say this is irritating would be an understatement.

I've tested both the main Leap 15.0 nvidia repository and the CUDA repository for SLES, and the behavior is the same. I'm currently running the following packages from the nvidia repository:

nvidia-computeG04 390.87-lp150.10.1 nvidia-gfxG04-kmp-default 390.87_k4.12.14_lp150.11-lp150.10.1 nvidia-glG04 390.87-lp150.10.1 x11-video-nvidiaG04 390.87-lp150.10.1

Does anyone here have any experience debugging this issue? Also, please let me know If there is a better place to report this.

Why aren't you using the Nvidia driver 390.87 which is here?:

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/137276/en-us

BC

The latest (current) releases are always found here:

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/533434/linux/current-graphics-dri ver-releases/

Which reminds me - time to update (I'm a couple of versions behind). Thanks for the prompt to go look, BC. :)

390.87 IS the latest driver, and the URL I gave is where you get to from the URL you provided above :-).

BC

390.87 is the latest LTS release; 396.54 is the latest official release (I'm on 396.51); 410.57 is the latest beta release (and I'm about to give that one a try - it has some bugfixes that might be relevant to me). -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au CCNA #CSCO12880208 ============================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 9/10/18 11:38 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 09/10/2018 07.21, Basil Chupin wrote:

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On 5/10/18 10:51 pm, Chris Coutinho wrote:

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Hello,

I recently installed Leap 15.0 on a workstation that has an nvidia graphics card installed (Quadro K2200), and since I've been using it for graphics work I've noticed that it continuously pauses. Even while editing a file or typing this email the entire screen pauses for half a second - every 5 seconds.

To say this is irritating would be an understatement.

I've tested both the main Leap 15.0 nvidia repository and the CUDA repository for SLES, and the behavior is the same. I'm currently running the following packages from the nvidia repository:

nvidia-computeG04 390.87-lp150.10.1 nvidia-gfxG04-kmp-default 390.87_k4.12.14_lp150.11-lp150.10.1 nvidia-glG04 390.87-lp150.10.1 x11-video-nvidiaG04 390.87-lp150.10.1

Does anyone here have any experience debugging this issue? Also, please let me know If there is a better place to report this.

Why aren't you using the Nvidia driver 390.87 which is here?:

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/137276/en-us But he is using 390.87.

OK, sorry for not making it clearer ... I meant the driver which comes directly from nVidia itself and not what is to be found in the Community nVidia repository in YaST. I have none of the 4 files mentioned above installed but do have 'NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.57.run' from nVidia installed (NOTE: 410.57 is a Beta following-on from 390.87) BC -- "One of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water". Donald Trump's observation on Hurricane Florence, 19 September 2018. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 10/10/2018 02.02, Basil Chupin wrote:

On 9/10/18 11:38 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 09/10/2018 07.21, Basil Chupin wrote:

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On 5/10/18 10:51 pm, Chris Coutinho wrote:

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Hello,

I recently installed Leap 15.0 on a workstation that has an nvidia graphics card installed (Quadro K2200), and since I've been using it for graphics work I've noticed that it continuously pauses. Even while editing a file or typing this email the entire screen pauses for half a second - every 5 seconds.

To say this is irritating would be an understatement.

I've tested both the main Leap 15.0 nvidia repository and the CUDA repository for SLES, and the behavior is the same. I'm currently running the following packages from the nvidia repository:

nvidia-computeG04 390.87-lp150.10.1 nvidia-gfxG04-kmp-default 390.87_k4.12.14_lp150.11-lp150.10.1 nvidia-glG04 390.87-lp150.10.1 x11-video-nvidiaG04 390.87-lp150.10.1

Does anyone here have any experience debugging this issue? Also, please let me know If there is a better place to report this.

Why aren't you using the Nvidia driver 390.87 which is here?:

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/137276/en-us But he is using 390.87.

OK, sorry for not making it clearer ... I meant the driver which comes directly from nVidia itself and not what is to be found in the Community nVidia repository in YaST.

Well, that's what I meant when I wrote earlier «try the nvidia driver installed "the hard way"», because "hard way" or "easy way" is what the openSUSE documentation described. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.0 (Legolas))