I have been experiencing for the past few months lag spikes, especially on YouTube and social media where videos are playing. It even happens when the web browser is the only program running. I saw this is happening with other types of framework laptop but didn’t see Framework 13 intel 13th gen posts. Wanted to ask when this is going to be fixed as it’s quite bad.
Hey! I had something very similar happening on my end. Random GPU spikes and some GNOME extensions would just freeze up or crash entirely. It was pretty frustrating to diagnose.
What ended up fixing it for me was switching to Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE Plasma). I know that sounds like a drastic move, but since making the switch I haven’t had a single one of those GPU spike issues. KDE seems to handle GPU resources quite differently than GNOME, and whatever was causing the conflict just disappeared.
Obviously changing your desktop environment isn’t a trivial thing, but if you’re hitting a wall with GNOME on Fedora and want to try something, it might be worth giving KDE a shot. You can install plasma-desktop on Fedora without switching distros, or go with Kubuntu if you’re open to it.
Have you tried disabling all extensions and enable them one by one to find out what’s causing it?
Yes, disabling extensions still causes the lag spikes.
So if it’s a gnome issue, have they acknowledged it? Is there an issue tracking this?
Are you using any tools that talk to the EC. E.g. “framework control”.
Try stopping them and see if it helps.
I have no idea what that is
“framework control” is this:
I have not used that, so what could the issue be?
@Yiannis_Charalambous
I was only mentioned the framework-control as a possible cause. If you are not using it, then don’t worry. If you are not using it, it will not be the problem here.
OK, after a ton of searching, I found (on reddit i think) doing sudo dnf upgrade –refresh to work. Laptop is back to being buttery smooth (for now). After months of issues.