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My ThinkPad P1 gen6 runs on Arch Linux. I use nvidia-driver and gnome-shell (Wayland).

After a normal start, everything is perfectly working.

After a resume from hibernation, the system begins to stutter, getting stuck for a second, works fine for some seconds and sucks again for a second. If I switch between application-windows, or I use the mouse, I can see/feel stutter.

If I look into htop I see no strange things:

  • gnome-shell is about 1G if RAM

  • Vivaldi browser has some GB too, but I have 64 GB RAM installed, that shouldn't be a problem.

  • At this time 16GB of 64GB are "used".

  • CPU-usage is about 5%.

On my ThinkPad T470p (also: arch, nvidia (but with bumblebee), gnome, wayland) I do not have those stutter!

The stutter appears not on first resume, but on second or third.

Does anyone know this problem, or does anyone have a hint for debugging this more deeply?

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  • Are you using the proprietary NVidia driver, or the open source one (I think that's nouveau nowadays)? What if you try switching to the driver you're not currently using? Commented Mar 20 at 22:42
  • The "stutter" might be related to swapping. If the hibernation results in things being swapped out, the significant swap in winds up being a significant delay. You might try forcing a swap in (swapoff -a;swapon -a) after waking up to see if that makes a difference. Commented Mar 21 at 0:21
  • @DavidG. swapoff/swapon did not help. Commented Mar 27 at 17:56

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It has been known for years that hibernation is buggy on many laptops, no matter how powerful or weak your setup is (CPU, RAM, etc.).

Whether it's hibernation, sleep, closing the lid, etc..

There is still no universal solution for the different distributions and devices.

I would disable it completely in my opinion.

Here are some links on the topic:

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  • This answer is completely unhelpful; it offers nothing to further OP towards a solution. Furthermore, half the provided links have literally nothing to do with hibernating. And most of the linked questions have working solutions in them, which clashes with the "just give up" attitude of this answer. Commented Mar 20 at 22:41
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It looks like the gnome-extensions "ThinkPad Thermal" and also "System Monitor" are causing the stuttering-issue. After disabling both, the stuttering was gone - re-enabling the stuttering came back.

Maybe there are some processes in the background which are guilty...

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