Not really a complain here, but I am wondering if there is other users that get the same behavior as I experience.
With Protonmail beta 4.0 ( The new one with the centralized SSO ), I see increased CPU load while scrolling the email list or while scrolling within the email read pane.
The CPU usage just goes up high. I generated a CPU flamegraph for firefox, and I see that the CPU is busy with libxul.so.
I am wondering if I am the only one with this behaviour?
PureOS 9 Amber is a stable distro. Because of that its still running GNOME 3.30, gknown (please donât hit me) for running a little harder on the CPU at higher resolutions. Where as newer versions of GNOME run a little more off the GPU.
Itâs based on Debian 11 âBullseyeâ so once that goes stable, I assume weâll deem Byzantium to be stable. Personally, I think Byzantium is at the point where its stable/usable for power users. I donât think GNOME 40 will be pulled into Debian Bullseye* so that should alleviate some bigger possibilities for things breaking, thus making me comfortable enough to recommend it to you.
Just make sure to run sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade right after installing and setting up Byzantium. The ISO still has GNOME 3.36 on it.
*Bullseyeâs scheduled soft feature freeze is 2021-Feb-12 and hard freeze 2021-Mar-12. With GNOME 40 scheduled to be released March 2021 I donât think itâll make it into Bullseye and that makes me more comfortable recommending Byzantium. Purism is still more focused on Amber right now as weâre shipping it on our entire lineup (laptops, phones, desktop, servers, etc) but more technically inclined folks should be comfortable using Byzantium day to day.
Iâd say this is more a browser issue than a Librem mini specific issue.
It could be that Protonmail beta is using something that the browser you use doesnât have implemented very well or at all, and the CPU usage spike is a result of that.
If you switch to the Protonmail normal do you see the same kind of CPU spikes when scrolling through your messages?
Well I am back, this time not on PureOS Amber but PureOS byzantium.
Much better, I can keep the 4k display and the screen is not lagging how it used to do, even when not on the browser the overall behavior feels less laggy.
Now on Firefox ESR 78 and for the Protonmail beta 4.0, it also behave better now, it is usable and not lagging.
The CPU is also not heating ( Fan does not kicks in ).
Looking at perf top is also better, libxul.so is no more piling up like crazy, I see about 15-20 of them and the system is able to serve them fast enough for them to not pile up.
For now going to PureOS byzantium for me is a positive experience on the Librem Mini.
@2disbetter The issue was PureOS Amber, not using the GPU enough. Now on byzantium libxul.so is getting âservedâ fast enough and the system is behaving as one would expect
