Frequent periods of unresponsiveness for 10 to 20 seconds at least on a fresh KDE install(with some programs)

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No they, do not reappear

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you have these:

org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: context kaput

post output from:
pacman -Qs 'pulse|pipewire'

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Yeah, I noticed them too and am searching at the moment.

pacman

local/gst-plugin-pipewire 1:0.3.56-1
    Multimedia graph framework - pipewire plugin
local/lib32-libcanberra 1:0.30+r2+gc0620e4-1
    A small and lightweight implementation of the XDG Sound Theme Specification (32-bit)
local/lib32-libpulse 16.1-1
    A featureful, general-purpose sound server (32-bit client libraries)
local/libcanberra 1:0.30+r2+gc0620e4-1
    A small and lightweight implementation of the XDG Sound Theme Specification
local/libpulse 16.1-1
    A featureful, general-purpose sound server (client library)
local/manjaro-pipewire 20220217-2
    Manjaro meta package for complete PipeWire support.
local/pipewire 1:0.3.56-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor
local/pipewire-alsa 1:0.3.56-1.0
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - ALSA configuration
local/pipewire-jack 1:0.3.56-1.0
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - JACK support
local/pipewire-media-session 1:0.4.1-2
    Example session manager for PipeWire
local/pipewire-pulse 1:0.3.56-1.0
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - PulseAudio replacement
local/pipewire-v4l2 1:0.3.56-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - V4L2 interceptor
local/pipewire-zeroconf 1:0.3.56-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - Zeroconf support
local/plasma-pa 5.24.6-1 (plasma)
    Plasma applet for audio volume management using PulseAudio
local/pulseaudio-alsa 1:1.2.7.1-1
    ALSA Configuration for PulseAudio
local/pulseaudio-ctl 1.70-1
    Control pulseaudio volume from the shell or mapped to keyboard shortcuts.
local/pulseaudio-qt 1.3-1
    Qt bindings for libpulse
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Is Jack or v4l2 the problem. I installed them somewhat automatically, and will not do so anymore.

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remove the pulse leftovers:
pamac remove pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-ctl pulseaudio-qt
and you didnt installed wireplumber but pipewire media session, so install wireplumber:
pamac install wireplumber
it will remove the pipewire session, then reboot

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That did the trick. I think it was the leftovers though. In all previous installations I always installed wireplumber as well

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so now you dont have any freezes and audio is working?

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The audio is working. Firefox froze once at each startup for the last 3 or so boots, but worked nicely afterwards. I did not check video players and strawberry yet. Be back in a moment

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you have in logs again the coredump, so maybe removing the libva-vdpau-driver and lib32-libva-vdpau-driver may be needed …
but first check the other programs …

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Yeah they(VLC, MPC) do. but only with bigger files. VLC just takes long to start, and works afterwards(at least with time jumps). MPV same as VLC, but takes a second or so with time jumps.
MPC does not start playing at all but I can still click things

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It does not seem to matter, wether or not the file is on the NVME or an external disk

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And Firefox has a freeze just now as well

It all feels like there is very much caching going on somewhere

Probably caching is the wrong word

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did you tested all of this on a fresh install before running any update?
booting into linux mint live usb session, and installing vlc/mpv and test in the live session if it there happens too

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Sorry no I did not, give me a few

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before that though, another topic in the forum caught my eye (Manjaro is lagging & Freezing) and reminded me that I did not setup swap yet either. I did so now, but before I rebooted I took a look at htop. There it said that my RAM was completely full with caching data. This should not be possible, right. I hav 32GB of RAM, so there was at least 28 GB of Caching Data

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I tried first with manjaro live, since I had to download mint.
I had no audio, and the starting time was noticable but still faster than on the install.
On Mint I still have no sound!?!!? But starting a video was instantaneous.

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I am gonna try live manjaro gnome now, if the issue does not persist I will install and check again. Will probably try KDE in a few months again, but I am beginning to need a working computer again

Edit

Gnome live works fine. Installing now.

Edit 2

Gnome installed. But no audio in settings and from gnome. Still have to test aplay.
Should I open another topic?

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that ram usage is not normal … what process was using it? maybe baloo?
no freezes in gnome?
you can switch to pipewire+wireplumber and see if that fixes the audio

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no freezes in gnome, but absolutely no audio either, am installing KDE again :see_no_evil:
Will have to use the laptop for studying, until this is fixed

I have already tried that and rebooted.

Unfortunately I did not note, what the program was. What is baloo, it is at least no a command that is installed on kde

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but audio worked before, why its not working anymore…
balloo is a indexer which is known for causing this exact freeze issue … but since the freezes happened also on gnome before you installed kde, it may not be related to it …
you can disable baloo from system settings/search/file search and uncheck all the options, click apply