Im experience heavy performance issues, since i used the symlink for a Flatpak game, called BAR (Beyond all Reason). I play it almost daily and i never had problems, not till i used this symlink.
I moved BAR from my External Samsung SSD T5 (500gb) (connected with USB 3.0) to my Internal Samsung SSD 860 Pro (1TB) that i mainly use for gaming, but also for Win10 and since i though my External SSD has enough work to do with Linux and Swap and BAR.
I though it makes sense to use my idling and unused (in Linux) 860 SDD that connected with SATA, but instead improving the performance i think i made it worse. I just dont get it, whats going on here?
Maybe is there read/access degration when using Symlinks? Is there a way to improve access to the Data for my gaming SSD?
This is the commands that i used befor i had this issues.
# move exiting installation to new directory (dont create a Folder named “bar”)
$ mv ~/.var/app/info.beyondallreason.bar/data/ /media/linux-games/bar
# give app in flatpak permission to read and write to new data directory
$ flatpak override --user --filesystem=/media/linux-games/bar info.beyondallreason.bar
# symlink the old data directory to new one
$ ln -s /media/linux-games/bar ~/.var/app/info.beyondallreason.bar/data
$ inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width
System:
Kernel: 5.15.94-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
root=UUID=eb235aa7-d461-413d-800e-ea57385703fb rw quiet apparmor=1
sysrq_always_enabled=1 retbleed=off security=apparmor
resume=UUID=717b267e-7322-4bf9-a840-f1210d422d1a udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.26.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.8 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z170X-UD3 v: N/A
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z170X-UD3-CF v: x.x serial: <superuser required>
UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends v: F23d date: 12/01/2017
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.58 GiB used: 2.57 GiB (16.5%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-6700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake-S
gen: core 6 level: v3 note: check built: 2015 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
model-id: 0x5E (94) stepping: 3 microcode: 0xF0
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 4501 high: 4505 min/max: 800/4700 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: performance cores: 1: 4501 2: 4501 3: 4499
4: 4500 5: 4499 6: 4499 7: 4505 8: 4504 bogomips: 64026
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush
clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64
dtherm dts ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu
fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida
intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor
movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm
pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp
rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp
syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi
vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: retbleed status: Vulnerable
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: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU102 [GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Rev. A] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: nvidia v: 525.89.02 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 525.xx+
status: current (as of 2023-02) arch: Turing code: TUxxx
process: TSMC 12nm FF built: 2018-22 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1e07 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.7 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 122 s-size: 532x302mm (20.94x11.89")
s-diag: 612mm (24.08")
Monitor-1: DP-4 res: 2560x1440 dpi: 123 size: 527x296mm (20.75x11.65")
diag: 604mm (23.8") modes: N/A
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 525.89.02 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Ti/PCIe/SSE2 direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA TU102 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f7 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Creative Labs CA0132 Sound Core3D [Sound Blaster Recon3D /
Z-Series BlasterX AE-5 Plus] driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 0b:00.0 chip-ID: 1102:0012 class-ID: 0403
Sound API: ALSA v: k5.15.94-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 running: no
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e v: kernel
port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b8 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 5.48 TiB used: 245.65 GiB (4.4%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 960 EVO 500GB
size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B7QCXE7 temp: 39.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 PRO 1TB
size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HDN724030ALE640
size: 2.73 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: A5E0 scheme: GPT
ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: Samsung
model: Portable SSD T5 size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B type: SSD serial: <filter> scheme: MBR
ID-5: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 type: USB vendor: Seagate model: BUP Slim BK
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B type: N/A
serial: <filter> rev: 0302 scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 88.61 GiB size: 86.66 GiB (97.80%) used: 26.83 GiB (31.0%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 label: N/A
uuid: eb235aa7-d461-413d-800e-ea57385703fb
ID-2: /boot raw-size: 200 MiB size: 188.2 MiB (94.09%)
used: 68.9 MiB (36.6%) fs: ext3 dev: /dev/sdc3 maj-min: 8:35 label: N/A
uuid: 26eda82e-b403-49b8-abca-202167417020
ID-3: /home raw-size: 332.03 GiB size: 325.75 GiB (98.11%)
used: 7.62 GiB (2.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc4 maj-min: 8:36 label: N/A
uuid: ada4a6a2-bd0a-4652-b386-7c637bba7ee9
ID-4: /media/linux-games raw-size: 196.58 GiB size: 192.43 GiB (97.89%)
used: 132.26 GiB (68.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3
label: Linux-games uuid: dd5af583-9d00-4017-adf7-e1d8876486e7
ID-5: /media/temp raw-size: 63.48 GiB size: 62.18 GiB (97.96%)
used: 20.05 GiB (32.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 label: temp
uuid: 1e81b7c2-3438-438a-b572-ff8a966a78e1
ID-6: /run/media/koboldx/Backup PC raw-size: 462.76 GiB
size: 454.43 GiB (98.20%) used: 58.82 GiB (12.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdd1
maj-min: 8:49 label: Backup PC uuid: 8a779c83-ea89-4c23-acdb-8524194cd97f
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.81 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/sdc2 maj-min: 8:34 label: N/A
uuid: 717b267e-7322-4bf9-a840-f1210d422d1a
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 size: 442.47 GiB fs: ntfs label: ssm
uuid: AE7EDC0696B158FD
ID-2: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 50 MiB fs: ntfs label: System-reserviert
uuid: B2286A122869D5BF
ID-3: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 97.09 GiB fs: ntfs label: win10
uuid: 5E60C09860C077F3
ID-4: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 size: 585.94 GiB fs: ntfs label: games
uuid: 165692E31D7ADAF2
ID-5: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 size: 1.57 TiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-6: /dev/sdb3 maj-min: 8:19 size: 1.09 TiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-7: /dev/sdd2 maj-min: 8:50 size: 468.75 GiB fs: ext4
label: Backup Laptop uuid: ba42cd8d-3994-4491-85a2-f55f60a1d0e9
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-9:2 info: Endor AG ClubSportPedal type: HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
chip-ID: 0eb7:183b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: 1-13:3 info: A4Tech XL-730K / XL-750BK XL-755BK Mice
type: Keyboard,Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 09da:9090 class-ID: 0301
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 10 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 2-3:3 info: Seagate RSS LLC Backup Plus Portable Drive
type: Mass Storage driver: uas interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
power: 144mA chip-ID: 0bc2:ab24 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 2-5:2 info: Samsung Portable SSD T5 type: Mass Storage
driver: uas interfaces: 1 rev: 3.1 speed: 5 Gb/s power: 896mA
chip-ID: 04e8:61f5 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-6: 6-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 23.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 27 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 25%
Info:
Processes: 243 Uptime: 14m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 252 default: graphical
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.1 clang: 15.0.7 Packages: 1484
pm: pacman pkgs: 1478 libs: 417 tools: pamac pm: flatpak pkgs: 6 Shell: Bash
v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.25
