Ubuntu 19.10 Development Continues With Latest GNOME Updates, ZFS, Optimizations

[tildearrow]

Looking forward for the gnome performance improvements. I recently discovered why performance on my laptop was so depressing, turns out the intel p_state driver is very reluctant to go above 800mhz when on battery power.

In my opinion P-State is worse than CPUFreq:

- It feels like a "CPUFreq Lite". You only have 2 governors: powersave and performance.
- Powersave is misleading: it does not force the lowest clock but only leans towards it.
- It is impossible to set a custom speed.

[tildearrow]

winter is coming

it's winter here already

[down1]

In my opinion P-State is worse than CPUFreq:

- It feels like a "CPUFreq Lite". You only have 2 governors: powersave and performance.
- Powersave is misleading: it does not force the lowest clock but only leans towards it.
- It is impossible to set a custom speed.

- powersave is suppose to be the equivalent of 'ondemand' in cpufreq, but I haven't tried cpufreq so I can't say how that feels
- it is very easy to set a custom min or max speed and toggle turbo boost on/off. You just need to pipe values into the correct place or install a gnome extension to do it for you.

[Chugworth]

Does the energy performance bias knob help?

Yes, the "performance" setting fixed the problem also. But I didn't want to run the laptop in performance mode all the time, and I didn't want to keep changing the setting back and fourth. So, just increasing the minimum percentage for powersave mode seemed to be my best option.

[nivedita]

The energy performance bias doesn’t force it into performance mode permanently. It tells the chip to more aggressively ramp up frequencies than a balanced profile.

[horizonbrave]

it's winter here already

same here

[timrichardson]

The wayland blockers for Ubuntu's LTS are fundamental: for instance, they won't default to Wayland if a compositor crash kills the session (according to will Cooke). That's impossible to fix in gnome 3. So X will be around for a long time yet.

[Britoid]

The wayland blockers for Ubuntu's LTS are fundamental: for instance, they won't default to Wayland if a compositor crash kills the session (according to will Cooke). That's impossible to fix in gnome 3. So X will be around for a long time yet.

Clearly RH and Debian both have faith in it, but then extensions tend to be the reason for crashing.