KDE desktop performance issues after last update (8th June'21)

Hi everyone,

I’ve been using Manjaro KDE in my Lenovo Thinkpad E14 for the last month and I was very happy with the system performance (even with several apps open at the same time like Firefox, Thunderbird, Kile, Okular, Atom, Spotify…)

However, after the last update in 8th June’21, I’m experiencing global performance issues even if I have only one app running. The system have just become slower and you can feel it in windows animations, pdflatex compilations or whenever you load websites in Firefox, messages in Thunderbird or pdf in Okular.

Here is my computer info:

[srj@srj-matesing ~]$ inxi -Fazy
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.41-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64 
  root=UUID=3d3d2d93-73e4-464b-b6fd-9723814875e6 rw quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor resume=UUID=f15dd4eb-897b-4f69-8365-8e3b5b64fecb 
  udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20RA001BSP v: ThinkPad E14 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 20RA001BSP v: SDK0J40697 WIN serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: LENOVO v: R16ET29W (1.15 ) date: 12/03/2020 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 46.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 46.4/45.7 Wh (101.5%) 
  volts: 12.5 min: 11.1 model: SMP 5B10W138 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> 
  status: Unknown cycles: 23 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-10510U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: C (12) 
  microcode: DE cache: L2: 8 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 36812 
  Speed: 400 MHz min/max: 400/4900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 400 2: 400 3: 400 
  4: 400 5: 400 6: 401 7: 400 8: 400 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  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: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: TSX disabled 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel 
  bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9b41 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-8:3 
  chip-ID: 04f2:b6d9 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
  loaded: intel unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa 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: 163 size: 300x170mm (11.8x6.7") 
  diag: 345mm (13.6") 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (CML GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.2 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci bus-ID: 00:1f.3 
  chip-ID: 8086:02c8 class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.41-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.28 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel 
  port: 3000 bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:02f0 class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Lenovo driver: r8168 v: 8.048.03-NAPI modules: r8169 port: 2000 
  bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-10:4 
  chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 109.42 GiB (22.9%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: MZALQ512HALU-000L1 
  size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s 
  lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 9L1QFXV7 temp: 17.9 C 
  scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 100 GiB size: 97.87 GiB (97.87%) used: 27.63 GiB (28.2%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7 maj-min: 259:7 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 300 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 242.98 GiB size: 238.11 GiB (97.99%) 
  used: 81.8 GiB (34.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8 maj-min: 259:8 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:6 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: 0.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 230 Uptime: 19m wakeups: 8 Memory: 15.45 GiB 
  used: 3.65 GiB (23.6%) Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl Compilers: 
  gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1790 lib: 375 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 
  running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.04 

(Also, now “kded5” ask for access in “kwallet” every time I reboot the system)

Is someone experiencing the same issues? Let me know, thanks!

Hi @Sr_J ,
Welcome to the forum. Could you try this?
System Settings->KDE Wallet Unclick the button that says “Enable the KDE Wallet subsystem”

Y can also remove kwalletmanager package after disabling kwallet in systemsettings but not the other related packages (kwallet, signon-kwallet-extension).

Hope this help, regards,

Thanks @j8a. I don’t know how, but it seems that a simple:

sudo pacman -Syu

has fixed the problem somehow, since several pacman related packages have been downgraded:

[2021-06-10T00:19:00+0200] [ALPM] downgraded pamac-snap-plugin (10.1.2-0.1 -> 10.0.6-2)
[2021-06-10T00:19:00+0200] [ALPM] downgraded pamac-gtk (10.1.2-0.1 -> 10.0.6-2)
[2021-06-10T00:18:59+0200] [ALPM] downgraded pamac-flatpak-plugin (10.1.2-0.1 -> 10.0.6-2)
[2021-06-10T00:18:59+0200] [ALPM] downgraded pamac-cli (10.1.2-0.1 -> 10.0.6-2)
[2021-06-10T00:18:59+0200] [ALPM] downgraded pamac-common (10.1.2-0.1 -> 10.0.6-2)

Now, my computer’s performance is back to normal, and there is no more dialog of “kded5” asking for access in “kwallet”. :man_shrugging:t4:

Regards.

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