KDE Plasma very slow, sluggish, unresponsive

Hello. Last friday I installed the KDE edition Manjaro on my desktop computer.
I run six 1440 line monitors on two AMD rx480. Processor is Ryzen 2700x.
Most of UI runs very slow. The main menu takes a few seconds, to type in textboxes lags few seconds. Chrome is VERY slow when I type or scroll, while Firefox runs pretty much ok in terms of speed but tabs act funny like they are sometimes not where they seem to be.
Konsole seems to run fine.

I have tried changing opengl version and disabling composer and I don’t see any change.
I’m not sure if I’m running open or proprietary drivers.
What should I be trying?

Windows 11 out of the box without any manual graphic driver installation work perfectly fine.

Hello,

Check the compositor if enabled and set to OpenGL3.1 (in case you are on KDE Plasma before 5.24) … and might want to reduce some of the animations effects.

I already tried that. Setting OpenGL 3.1 and nothing changed.
Is it really that heavy? I disabled the composer (the checkbox to start it with the system) and I don’t see any change, also.
What should I be trying to change?

See below:

Might have to log out and back in … If you provide more info, as pointed out by @ishaan2479 - we might figure things out. Probably you have baloo_file running and that can do some funky stuff sometimes … and in case of a HDD compared to a SSD, that can affect things more obvious.

I have an SSD and I have of course been resetting after every change.
Info:

System:
  Kernel: 5.16.5-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.16-x86_64
    root=UUID=90a77dc1-c999-495e-8c31-ea08a29fbb69 rw quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Console: pty pts/1 wm: kwin_x11 DM: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux
    base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING v: N/A
    serial: N/A
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING-CF v: x.x serial: N/A
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: F50 date: 11/27/2019
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech G603 Wireless Gaming Mouse
    serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
    status: Discharging
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.57 GiB used: 2.81 GiB (18.1%)
  Array-1: capacity: 128 GiB slots: 4 EC: None max-module-size: 32 GiB
    note: est.
  Device-1: DIMM 0 size: No Module Installed
  Device-2: DIMM 1 size: 8 GiB speed: 3000 MT/s type: DDR4
    detail: synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) bus-width: 64 bits
    total: 64 bits manufacturer: Corsair part-no: CMK16GX4M2B3000C15
    serial: N/A
  Device-3: DIMM 0 size: No Module Installed
  Device-4: DIMM 1 size: 8 GiB speed: 3000 MT/s type: DDR4
    detail: synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) bus-width: 64 bits
    total: 64 bits manufacturer: Corsair part-no: CMK16GX4M2B3000C15
    serial: N/A
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X socket: AM4 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+
    family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 8 stepping: 2 microcode: 0x800820D
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 768 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x64 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 8x512 KiB
    L3: 16 MiB desc: 2x8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2293 high: 3700 min/max: 2200/3700 boost: enabled
    base/boost: 3700/4350 scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil
    volts: 1.2 V ext-clock: 100 MHz cores: 1: 2200 2: 2200 3: 2200 4: 2200
    5: 2200 6: 2200 7: 2200 8: 2200 9: 3700 10: 2200 11: 2200 12: 2200
    13: 2200 14: 2200 15: 2200 16: 2200 bogomips: 118440
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
    bmi2 bpext clflush clflushopt clzero cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cpuid
    cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid
    fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm
    mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc
    nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq
    pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse
    pse36 rapl rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es sha_ni skinit smap
    smca sme smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 succor svm svm_lock
    syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme
    vmmcall wdt xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  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
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
    disabled, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
    vendor: PC Partner Limited driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 0a:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:67df class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
    vendor: XFX Pine driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 0b:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67df
    class-ID: 0300
  Display: server: X.org 1.21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
    loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
    resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
  Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590]
    vendor: PC Partner Limited driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0a:00.1
    chip-ID: 1002:aaf0 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590]
    vendor: XFX Pine driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0b:00.1
    chip-ID: 1002:aaf0 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 0d:00.3 chip-ID: 1022:1457 class-ID: 0403
  Device-4: Blue Microphones Yeti Stereo Microphone type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-10:2 chip-ID: b58e:9e84
    class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.5-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.45 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: Gigabyte driver: igb v: kernel
    port: f000 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:1539 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp7s0 state: up speed: 100 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:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 5-4.1:6 chip-ID: 0bda:8771 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.96 TiB used: 13.1 GiB (0.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:2 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO 1TB
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
    lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B2QEXE7 temp: 47.9 C scheme: GPT
  SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 264d 5h cycles: 530
    read-units: 25,783,334 [13.2 TB] written-units: 24,000,187 [12.2 TB]
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Lenovo
    model: LENSE20256GMSP34MEAT2TA size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: 2.3.8341 temp: 56.9 C scheme: MBR
  SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 272d 14h cycles: 1,437
    read-units: 44,407,947 [22.7 TB] written-units: 18,296,502 [9.36 TB]
  ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WD1001FALS-00J7B1 family: Caviar Black size: 931.51 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B sata: 2.5 speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: N/A
    serial: <filter> rev: 0K05 temp: 43 C scheme: MBR
  SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 3y 270d 10h cycles: 5105
  ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: Western Digital
    model: WD10EADS-00L5B1 family: Caviar Green size: 931.51 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B sata: 2.5 speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: N/A
    serial: <filter> rev: 2.10 drive rev: 01.01A01 temp: 32 C scheme: MBR
  SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 8y 47d 0h cycles: 883
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 292.97 GiB size: 287.31 GiB (98.07%)
    used: 13.07 GiB (4.5%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
    maj-min: 259:4 label: Manjaro uuid: 90a77dc1-c999-495e-8c31-ea08a29fbb69
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 27.6 MiB (5.4%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
    maj-min: 259:3 label: EFI uuid: 0FF3-06B0
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:5 size: 390.62 GiB fs: ntfs label: Windows
    uuid: 361B3E4F17F794DB
  ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:6 size: 247.42 GiB fs: ntfs
    label: DataPrime uuid: 11C99AEE01A96A1B
  ID-3: /dev/nvme1n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 size: 238.47 GiB fs: ntfs
    label: NVME SSD uuid: 01D631CA7E735210
  ID-4: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 931.51 GiB fs: ntfs label: DATA
    uuid: 48AE74F9AE74E0BC
  ID-5: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 size: 931.51 GiB fs: ntfs label: WD1
    uuid: A41457AA14577DEC
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 14 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-10:2 info: Blue Microphones Yeti Stereo Microphone
    type: Audio,HID driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4
    rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: b58e:9e84 class-ID: 0300
    serial: <filter>
  Hub-2: 1-11:3 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0608 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-11.1:4 info: Initio Hi-Speed USB to SATA Bridge
    type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s power: 2mA chip-ID: 13fd:1340 class-ID: 0806
    serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 1-11.4:5 info: Genesys Logic GL827L SD/MMC/MS Flash Card Reader
    type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 05e3:0723 class-ID: 0806
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 8 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 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
  Device-1: 3-2:2 info: Corsair Vengeance K95 Keyboard type: Keyboard,HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 500mA chip-ID: 1b1c:1b08 class-ID: 0300
  Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-6: 5-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-7: 5-1:2 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 05e3:0610 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-8: 5-2:3 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 05e3:0610 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-9: 5-3:4 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 05e3:0610 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-10: 5-4:5 info: VIA Labs Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 2109:2811 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 5-4.1:6 info: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: Bluetooth
    driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA
    chip-ID: 0bda:8771 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 5-4.2:7
    info: KYE Systems (Mouse Systems) Scorpion M8-610 Gaming Mouse
    type: Mouse,HID,Keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s power: 300mA chip-ID: 0458:017d class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: 5-4.3:8 info: Logitech USB Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID
    driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c539 class-ID: 0300
  Hub-11: 6-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-12: 6-1:2 info: Genesys Logic GL3523 Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.2
    speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 05e3:0620 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-13: 6-2:3 info: Genesys Logic GL3523 Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.2
    speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 05e3:0620 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-14: 6-3:4 info: Genesys Logic GL3523 Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.2
    speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 05e3:0620 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 6-3.1:6 info: Realtek USB3.0-CRW type: Mass Storage
    driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s power: 800mA
    chip-ID: 0bda:0306 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
  Hub-15: 6-4:5 info: VIA Labs Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 2109:8110 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 50.6 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
  GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 56.0 C fan: 1073 watts: 30.24 device: amdgpu
    temp: 51.0 C fan: 726 watts: 9.05
Info:
  Processes: 411 Uptime: 10m wakeups: 3 Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl
  Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 13.0.0 Packages: 1229 pacman: 1225 lib: 333
  flatpak: 4 Shell: Zsh (sudo) v: 5.8 default: Bash v: 5.1.16
  running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.12

Umm if this is the case, that is very bad and should be fixed.
It is a repartitioned SSD, used before with all partitions new.
I have dual boot with windows 11 and no problems whatsoever on windows.
I confirm once again Firefox and Konsole work normally. Dolphin is ok too.

Main menu takes a few seconds every time. Results in menu search take seconds along with what I typed to appear.
Settings app takes a long time to appear and when I type ionto the search box it takes a long time to see what I typed. By long, like 5 seconds. Same with whatever I click in settings app. Chrome installed from AUR is unusable. I was barely able to take a screenshot, it took me more than a minute to capture rectangular region.

I quickly tried onlyoffice writer and works super quickly and perfectly.
Slack installed as flatpak works terribly. Slow response to keyboard, resize window takes ages…

this is the first time that you are talking about the use of flatpack. that’s a total different story than kde.

Sorry, I am not that into technicalities.
Otherwise KDE settings app is laggy and other stuff to what I already mentioned.
Liek that screenshot where you can change the OpenGl version. Click, wait 3 seconds, clikk other opengl version, wait 4 seconds, click apply, wait 5 seconds…
Anyway I also have Manjaro KDE on two laptops and have zero issues there with all the same programs.

Hi @mandor
I hope I am not too late!
I have been through this. As @bogdancovaciu mentioned it may be baloo.
It happened with me because I was using some “snapshoting” software that takes sanpshots from time to time of my system including data files, pdf, doc,… and baloo keeps re-indexing each snapshot which caused it to be working all the time.
Problem not encountered after I did not instll any snapshoting software.

Hint:
Create a text file with a unique name, type just anything inside. Wait for it to get indexed, and wait for it to be reindexed if you have snapshoting.
Searching for this file by name or content should give you more than one result, all pointing to the same file.
If so, then the problem is with snapshoting as above.
I hope this helps and i am not to late, and hope this helps others in case they have same problem.

I have had the same issue. I was originally using KDE Plasma back in 2020. Probably around the 5.10 Kernel. And it ran perfectly.

However, now my system just gets sluggish after a while. Total lock ups sometimes even.

I am using the exact same laptop as I was back in 2020.

Also, why does my compositor screen look different??

No necro-bumping, please.