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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Dec 2017
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Tearing and system lag when using acceleration

Reported by janchmie...@gmail.com, Nov 25 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.2; SM-N9005 Build/KOT49H) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.84 Mobile Safari/537.36

Example URL:
All of them, especially visible when watching Youtube.com

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open the browser
2. Scroll slowly or play a video

Second scenario:
1. Open the browser and enable acceleration
2. Observe system's gui lagg

What is the expected behavior?
The acceleration shouldn't cause the whole desktop environment to lag

What went wrong?
Chromium causes the system to lag when using acceleration

Other browsers not based on Chromium don't have any problems

Does it occur on multiple sites: Yes

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? No 

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 62.0.3202.84  Channel: n/a
OS Version: Arch x64
Flash Version: 

I am running:
I7 4790k
Gtx 980 (Nvidias propertary driver)
Arch Linux x64 with up-to-date kernel
 
Labels: Needs-Triage-M62
Components: -Blink Blink>Compositing
Components: -Blink>Compositing Internals>GPU
Labels: Needs-Feedback
What window/compositing manager do you use? Does it reproduce on others? Does it reproduce without a compositing manager?
I use Gnome 3.26 ,the same happens on XFCE but is less visible

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Comment 6 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Dec 6 2017

Cc: danakj@chromium.org
Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "danakj@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
XFCE also has a compositing manager by default I believe. Can you try disabling it?
Disabling it doesnt make much diffrence. And i want to use Gnome, Xfce is just my backup 

Comment 9 by danakj@chromium.org, Dec 15 2017

Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Ah ok, that's unfortunate. I can't really explain why chrome is making other programs laggy for you, it isn't something that seems to be widespread on other machines. It could be a driver problem, or something else on your system. You could try disabling hardware acceleration in chrome and see if that's better for you.

I can't reproduce this on my NVIDIA linux machine (and most chrome devs are using similar). For me I don't use a compositing manager, but it sounds like that's not related. I'm not sure what else to ask for to debug, or try from our end.

+thomasanderson in case he has any thoughts that we could try.
Disabling acceleration cauaes tearing.
I have to choose between system lag and website tearing. And thats why i am using Firefox now. I am really upset. Firefox has no tearing and doesnt cause system lag. So its poasible....

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