I use the unRIAD GUI a lot (the X GUI) Unfortunately it lags with a refresh rate of about 2 frames per second. I'm using the onboard VGA of a Supermicro Motherboard.

From the command line xrandr reports a 60hz refresh rate. The xrandr settings I have tried to change do nothing.

 

I don't have a clue. But it's behavior is something like I have seen on a 20 year old video card trying to display a modern scrolling webpage, but this motherboard is recent.

 

I have tried a different monitor and remote KVM through IPMI. 

 

cs-diagnostics-20191112-0004.zip

 

Edited November 12, 20196 yr by Jagadguru
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Are you trying to overclock?

No. 

 

On further investigation the GUI Xorg process is pinned on 100% of one thread of one core whenever anything is clicked.

 

On still further investigation the problem is Firefox. with Firefox closed, it runs fast.

 

Ok I've narrowed it down to the fact that Firefox is using very little memory 0.1%, whereas on my other machine it uses 1.2%. The total memory is the same on both machines.

 

Is there any way to allocate more of the memory pool to Firefox?

Edited November 12, 20196 yr by Jagadguru
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It was the resolution. I had to set it pretty low, but the screen updates decently fast now.

xrandr -s 1024x768

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but I was under the assumption that the onbaord video on the supermicro boards are very limited (64mb 2d only) and are really there for console diagnostics or such. I was too scared to try to boot mine into gui fearing it would cause issues. But glad to see it's possible if needed

Not sure about the specs either, but the strange thing is it runs decently fast even at high resolution 1680x1050 with another OS other than unRAID loaded. Admittedly I have only tried a lightweight linux OS.