Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20241226
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.12.6-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Having an issue where Dolphin will freeze every so often for 5-10 seconds, whether clicking the search button, decompressing a ZIP file, or opening a folder. I’m unsure as to what’s causing this and I’d appreciate some help in figuring it out.
Thanks in advance.
Not an easy problem to debug.
If I would run into the problem I would first try to simplify the problem and make it reproducible if possible, best case you can reproduce it from the command line.
Then I would run strace, that program traces all OS access done and typically you find at the moment the freeze happens what is going on but this is far from simple.
Also I would try to prove that it is only Dolphin that freezes and not the whole OS. E.g. playing some music, then using Dolphin and hear if the music also stops when Dolphin freezes.
Adding on top: remove/disable any 3rd party add-ons you may have added to Dolphin.
If you can isolate the problem in time, a rollback to a known to be working date is also worth considering.