As the title implies, I’m getting random heavy stutters after updating (zypper dup) to kernel 6.14.4. No apps open, but extremely high cpu usage (usually on 2 cores) as the image above shows. Tried rebooting, but no improvement (the stutters and high usage start after some time…).Anyone else having the same issue? Any suggestions?
Thank you, in advance
OPI installed
Specs: Ryzen 5 3600, RX 6750XT, 16GB RAM, SSD MSI 1TB
Usage: regular desktop user, gaming, browsing
Edit: Gnome desktop
Have you considered finding out what process is running? It probably isn’t ‘the kerenl.’
Yes! Sorry for not posting the screenshot, the forum doesn’t allow new users to post more than 1 image. There is nothing unusual…
Welcome, yes, discourse limits what you can do for newcomers.
For this you better log usage over time:
while true; do ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -5 >> logfile.txt; printf "\n" >> logfile.txt; sleep 3; done
Then share that logfile.txt using formatted as Preformatted Text:
What else got updated besides the kernel? Looks like some maintenance or btrfs housekeeping load after a large upgrade? You have 12 cores but just one is running at 100% at a time, maybe it is just a process that is disk or display related?
BTW, nothing similar here, Gnome, even lower specs, but regularly updated twice a week or so, so no big update recently and no btrfs.
@samirbarcoti Hi, could be using swap, would suggest removing the swap and let the system use the RAM, if really want swap, then look at using zram.
It could be GNOME Software doing it’s thing…
Mmmm… unlikely, at least at the time of the opening image: only some 2 GB used out of 16GB RAM, only 78M swap in use…
@OrsoBruno I don’t use packagekit, so could be that and G Software…or maybe indexing going on… My pictures are from an Dell OptiPlex XE3
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