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Hi all,
I have many of the issues you people have mentioned however I did somethings which actually improved the performance (albeit small) in one way or another. The things I did were done on the following configuration
- Intel i3 3227u @ 1.9GHz, Intel HD 4000 12GB of RAM, 240GB SSD, Fedora 27 + GNOME on Wayland
Here is what I did to it and I'll share my experience on it.
- Disable all extensions and if possible, remove them from the shell. Some distributions don't allow for removing certain extensions but that's okay.
- I've stopped using other themes and switched Adwaita. It might be silly to think a theme would affect performance but I believe themes do have some impact on the performance over others. Better to use the theme that was meant for it but I hope this isn't the case for the performance issues. Give it a shot.
- Disable animations if
As of now, I have been running GNOME like this and it's actually pretty smooth when dragging windows around. There definitely is some mouse lag when you open the date or the status menu but it's not bad enough to affect my work. It sucks that GNOME is pretty slow but disabling extensions seemed to help it a *lot*. I know that many of you cannot use GNOME without extensions but it is worth trying and reporting back your findings. This however doesn't solve GNOME's issues whatsoever! It only helps rub it's chest.
Also, I've been running GNOME for three days straight (put through suspend, wake up and so forth) (3 day uptime) and the gnome-shell process has been steadily eating up more RAM. It currently is at 410MB but it really should be at around 100-200MB and stay there, this of course depends on how many extensions you have. I guess to solve the memory issue on Wayland (since alt+f2, r doesn't work), you can log out and log back in.
I seriously hope GNOME devs are aware of the performance issues and they do their best to fix it. We don't want to do silly things that affect our workflow just to get it running properly. I want to use the GNOME animations but I can't because GNOME is too slow! I want to use a few extensions but I can't because GNOME is too slow! Please guys, focus on the performance issues with the next release.
Best of luck to the GNOME team.