Hi, On Saturday, 4 December 2021 01:07:18 CET riveravaldez via arch-general wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for some advice trying to pinpoint why or where my system has becoming almost unusable slow. Searching the web I've found some hints but nothing precise enough. Maybe it's a failing HDD, but I'm first posting what I have until now in the hope someone can give some advice.
Have you check SMART health status of your disks? Maybe also run some self- tests to discard HDD issues. A HDD about to die can make system incredible slow.
Superficial symptoms are a general slowness. I'm using just IceWM and `startx` to initialize the GUI, and even logging into my account previous to that takes almost a minute to get done. Then any application I launch takes minutes to just start (from IceWM to firefox, from qtox to pcmanfm or geany, etc.). Even navigate the folders tree with pcmanfm takes 10 or more seconds just to show any folder content...
Do you have a single disk or more than one? If so, do you feel a difference navigating directories that are physically in different disks? Also, to discard other hardware problems, can you boot arch (or any other distro) on a USB and check if system is more responsive. Another thing you can check is the CPU freq. If CPU too hot, modern CPUs will throttle a lot. Although if you have a HDD I don't think this is the case... anycase, it's a quick think to check temperature and frequency. Also, did the slowness start after updating any BIOS/firmware? Maybe also run some memtest? Hope it helps. -- Iyán Méndez Veiga GPG: 0x422E3694311E5AC1