Hi @spikerguy & Manjaro Users,
I wonder any of you are experiencing system slow down and becoming less responsive as uptime progresses on the latest mesa-git (3.1 Mesa 21.2.0-devel (git-17d7b0bb8f)) on Stable Branch with Panfrost enabled on XFCE, cpu-governor=performance.
The tell tale sign is for example on boot up you run glmark2 or glmark2-es2 (first run) eg. score 446 and you run glmark2 or glmark2-es2 again the score will drop quite significantly to 348 and if run again the score will drop further. You will also notice CPU usage is higher the in the 2nd or 3rd glmark2 or glmark2-es2 run.
As uptime progresses at times the system become less responsive where you move the mouse to select from a menu it lags.
I first notice this on Armbian with Oibaf graphics drivers mesa-git built dated after 2021-05-19 (mesa-git 21.2-devel) but not sure whether it is due to mesa-git or something else. Updated the mesa-git built a few rounds mesa-git 21.2-devel to 2021-06-07 the same results slow down on XFCE session. Manjaro-XFCE with earlier mesa-git devel earlier than 2021-05-19, do notice this systme slow down or glmark2-es2 score dropping significantly after each run.
So I updated the Manjaro-XFCE to the latest Stable Update 2021-06-04 with the accompanying mesa-git and I am noticing this glmark2 or glmark2-es2 scores dropping after subsequent runs.
By the way mesa 21.1.1-1 (stable) doesn’t seems to have this issue. Not sure whether this is the right place to post this.
Edit:
After 90 minutes of up time with Panfrost enabled on mesa-git(3.1 Mesa 21.2.0-devel (git-17d7b0bb8f) current mesa-git on stable repo, the system is already not that responsive. Glmark2-es2 scroe of 439 (30 minutes idling after boot up) and after 90 minutes web surfing and re-run glmark2-es2 score dropped to 186.