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
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