My system seems to have slowed down and I’m not sure why. Logging in takes longer than it used to, and applications seem to be running slowly as well. I have a program that I run occasionally and it takes about 4-8 times longer to execute than it used to. I didn’t time it, but it seems very sluggish. I tried a rollback, made no difference. This just started happening today and I made no system modifications. Any idea where I can start looking for answers?
Thanks.
Is there are looping process?
You can run “top” in a terminal. Or run “ksysguard” (if you are a KDE user) to monitor what is running.
Which desktop environment? Just in case this is relevant…
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/527054-Constant-Hard-Drive-Activity
I’m using KDE. I don’t see any processes that are consuming a large amount of system resources. But, for example, I have some code I wrote in IDL that uses libreoffice to convert a bunch of xlsx files to csv files. It used to convert 4-5 per second, now it’s converting 1 per second (the rest of the program takes forever to run also). System resources aren’t being used up. Is there a way to check if my CPU is running at a slower speed for some reason?
Try removing ~/.cache for a start. Also, check your available disk space perhaps.
I tried removing .cache, it didn’t seem to make a difference. I also created a new user, same problem. My /home is only 25% full and / is 46%, so there’s still plenty of drive space. I also wondered if maybe it was some issue with the SSD, so I moved everything to the internal HD and re-ran that program with all the read/write operations on the HD rather than the SSD…no difference. Normally I would think it’s just an issue with this program, except that logging in takes twice as long as it used to as well.
Maybe I found the source of the problem. I’m getting the following error:
KDE Baloo File Indexer has reached the inotify folder watch limit. File changes will be ignored.
How do I increase the limit? Or, alternately, should I just disable it?
This advice may be helpful to you…
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1796276#p1796276
That seems to have helped a little, at least with application load times. But, the system still seems sluggish. I’m also getting this error:
kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Failure creating named object \_SB.PCI0.XHC.RHUB.HS02._UPC], AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20190703/dswload2-323)
kernel: ACPI Error: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name lookup/catalog (20190703/psobject-220)
kernel: ACPI: Skipping parse of AML opcode: Method (0x0014)
No idea what this is about or if it’s related.
What “cpupower -c all frequency-info” says?
And yes, I had one case where system management controller thought PSU was overloaded and decided to throttle down CPU to the minimal speed.
Thanks. I think this is my problem. My CPUs are running at 800MHz. How do I fix it?
This could be quite normal for idle CPU.
How do I fix it?
You did not show any factual information that would allow to guess.
analyzing CPU 0:
driver: intel_pstate
CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: Not Available
CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: Not Available
maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported.
hardware limits: 800 MHz - 4.00 GHz
available cpufreq governors: performance
current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 4.00 GHz.
The governor "powersave" may decide which speed to use
within this range.
current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware
current CPU frequency: 800 MHz (asserted by call to kernel)
boost state support:
Supported: yes
Active: yes
Apparently this is a problem with Dell laptops. I had to disconnect the battery and press the power button to discharge any stored energy, then reconnect the battery. CPU performance is now back to normal.
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