Minecraft makes Ubuntu GNOME extremely slow (in Wayland sessions only)

[Ken Karlsson]

In Ubuntu 17.10 with GNOME, after launching Minecraft, when the Minecraft play window pops up Ubuntu is really slow and hardly responds.

WORKAROUND: Install Unity.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-36.40-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity_support_test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Feb 25 21:29:43 2018
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: artful
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250] [1002:9712] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250] [103c:148b]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-02-24 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20180105.1)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dm1 Notebook PC
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-36-generic root=UUID=b6ec7597-5a12-45d5-910b-2fb46d3cfd23 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 09/15/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.15
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 148B
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 80.14
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.15:bd09/15/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondm1NotebookPC:pvr049B100000243200000320000:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn148B:rvr80.14:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.family: 103C_5335KV
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dm1 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: 049B100000243200000320000
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.13.1+17.10.20170901-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.83-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 17.2.8-0ubuntu0~17.10.1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 17.2.8-0ubuntu0~17.10.1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.5-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.10.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20170309-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Moving to gnome-shell for GNOME folks to review and further root cause.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Can you try logging into "Ubuntu on Xorg" and see if that improves the performance?

[Ken Karlsson (gandalfwhite)]

Ubuntu on Xorg works great, just like Unity. No performance problems there.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

We know Wayland sessions in Gnome Shell have a lot of performance problems. And that's one of the reasons why we default to, and recommend Xorg sessions.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) reached end-of-life on July 19, 2018.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in and change the bug status to Confirmed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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