iostat
You’ll need to provide some flags to iostat to get a rolling monitor; those stats on screen are cumulative since reboot. I often use -zx1
As for your “that command does not exist, do you want to install this to provide it”, I’ve no idea - some helper function built into your shell perhaps?
I never get asked for my password for sudo commands as I’ve configured it that way, so what you see there is normal behaviour for me.
To answer that requires deep dive into the device drivers for the GPU, and I would not know woth the flip actually does. It could be related to the number of opened windows, but you need a real expert to answer that.
Quoting a Phoronix Forum comment https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-drivers/intel-linux/1644928-intel-i915-driver-nearly-ready-to-work-well-with-rt-linux-kernel-sans-display-support
they called that driver a unmanagable mess(deep nested locking), dropped the towel and focussed on getting the xe driver finished.
It may be better to put effort into the problem with the Xe driver which is being actively worked on.
I typo’d a space out from my iostat command, it should state I use -zx 1 to refresh the stats every second.
That’s probably too frequent for you - you may want something like every 5 or 10 seconds.
You may also want to use the --human, --pretty and --compact flags too.
Your choice - whatever lets you get a feel for whether your io subsytems are really causing a stuttering mouse pointer. I’d be surprised if it had any impact whatsoever.
Looks entirely reasonable to me, but then again, I have no idea what you’re currently running on that machine when those stats were produced - this is why you need to take a view on it yourself.
I see nothing under any stress though.
I share the same point of vue with you. maybe both driver are not compatible yet with my integrated GPU VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Arrow Lake-U [Intel Graphics]
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