I recently (been about a couple weeks, I think) upgraded my Manjaro kernel to 5.4.89-1-MANJARO. Everything has been working great.
Until recently, a couple days ago, when for some reason after a few hours of uptime some apps become very unresponsive. Entering text takes 3-4 seconds, scrolling is very laggy, context menu take a few seconds to appear. Only a few handful of apps that I use are affected my this Firefox, quasselclient (Qt), keepassxc. Other apps like chromium, emacs, Krita, gnome-terminal work as usual.
I tried the scientific method to find what could have caused this but nothing worked. The only two things that come to mind are, that I installed KDE plasma recently, and did a sudo pacman -Syu. However, I have uninstalled all packages associated with plasma but I’m not sure if it added some config which is doing this.
I tried looking into the logs and nothing there is nothing odd in them.
My system config:
$ inxi -Fza 130 ↵
System: Kernel: 5.4.89-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.4-x86_64 root=UUID=71dc1cde-549e-4ed3-8adb-3e29c03cdd07 rw quiet
cryptdevice=UUID=0c587585-2660-456d-8724-a70d44395ca5:luks-0c587585-2660-456d-8724-a70d44395ca5
root=/dev/mapper/luks-0c587585-2660-456d-8724-a70d44395ca5
resume=/dev/mapper/luks-0c587585-2660-456d-8724-a70d44395ca5 resume=UUID=3502c696-f712-4761-8dec-c3961ac8a191
mem_sleep_default=deep usbhid.quirks=0x04d9:0xa293:0x00000400
Desktop: i3 4.19 info: i3bar dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Dell product: XPS 15 9570 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 0D0T05 v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.17.1 date: 07/09/2020
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 78.9 Wh condition: 78.9/97.0 Wh (81%) volts: 12.7/11.4 model: SMP DELL GPM0365 type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: Full
CPU: Info: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-8750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6
model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10) microcode: DE L2 cache: 9 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 52815
Speed: 1850 MHz min/max: 800/4100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1850 2: 1706 3: 1287 4: 3069 5: 2778 6: 2019 7: 1704
8: 1765 9: 1855 10: 3731 11: 3609 12: 1905
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3e9b
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] driver: N/A alternate: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c8c
Device-3: Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-12:4 chip ID: 0c45:671d
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: intel display ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: eDP1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 143 size: 340x190mm (13.4x7.5") diag: 389mm (15.3")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.3 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a348
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.89-1-MANJARO
Network: Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Bigfoot Networks driver: ath10k_pci
v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 3b:00.0 chip ID: 168c:003e
IF: wlp59s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA61x4 Bluetooth 4.0 type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 1-4:2 chip ID: 0cf3:e300
Drives: Local Storage: total: 2.29 TiB used: 226.46 GiB (9.7%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Toshiba model: KXG60ZNV512G NVMe 512GB size: 476.94 GiB block size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 10604107
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD My Passport 25E1 size: 1.82 TiB block size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 1021
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 288.51 GiB size: 282.98 GiB (98.08%) used: 226.2 GiB (79.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
maj-min: 254:0 mapped: luks-0c587585-2660-456d-8724-a70d44395ca5
ID-2: /boot raw size: 270 MiB size: 253.4 MiB (93.86%) used: 163.7 MiB (64.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7
maj-min: 259:7
ID-3: /boot/efi raw size: 200 MiB size: 196.9 MiB (98.45%) used: 18.1 MiB (9.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8
maj-min: 259:8
Swap: Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 4 GiB used: 84.2 MiB (2.1%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9 maj-min: 259:9
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2515 fan-2: 2480
Info: Processes: 303 Uptime: 9h 26m wakeups: 1 Memory: 15.29 GiB used: 5.73 GiB (37.5%) Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers:
gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1616 lib: 385 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.2.02
Any idea what might be up, where I could at least find logs related to the problem?