Unresponsive GUI and mouse/keyboard input

[NoNa]

Hi,

When browsing the application launcher the gui lags behind by a second or so, if I drag a file or icon around it lags behind the pointer by sometimes several seconds and even when typing I can get a few words ahead of them appearing on screen. If I detach a tab from chrome the whole tab will be stuck for several(10 or so) seconds, slowly moving to wherever I dragged it and often just going back to where it originally was.

Issue seems to get worse during load.

System:
  Kernel: 5.12.19-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.12-x86_64 
  root=UUID=e5d6cdec-1a12-47f5-b816-197ffd9d2b7f rw quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor resume=UUID=f8cb95da-7572-4fc8-b8e4-ba9b8d82b664 
  udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: MAXIMUS VIII HERO v: Rev 1.xx 
  serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 2001 date: 08/29/2016 
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present? 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 31.28 GiB used: 8.33 GiB (26.6%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-6700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Skylake-S family: 6 model-id: 5E (94) stepping: 3 microcode: EA cache: 
  L2: 8 MiB bogomips: 64026 
  Speed: 1055 MHz min/max: 800/4200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1055 2: 1187 
  3: 1169 4: 1133 5: 1043 6: 1095 7: 889 8: 1834 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art 
  avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid 
  cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est 
  f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr hle 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 rtm 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: 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 mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1080] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia 
  v: 470.57.02 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  chip-ID: 10de:1b80 class-ID: 0300 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
  loaded: nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3968x1152 s-dpi: 84 s-size: 1200x366mm (47.2x14.4") 
  s-diag: 1255mm (49.4") 
  Monitor-1: DVI-D-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 84 
  size: 579x336mm (22.8x13.2") diag: 669mm (26.4") 
  Monitor-2: HDMI-1 res: 2048x1152 hz: 60 dpi: 102 
  size: 510x287mm (20.1x11.3") diag: 585mm (23") 
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2 
  v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.57.02 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP104 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f0 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-3: Logitech G933 Wireless Headset Dongle type: USB 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-12:4 chip-ID: 046d:0a5b 
  class-ID: 0300 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.12.19-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.32 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: e1000e v: kernel 
  port: f000 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> 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: 5.92 TiB used: 134.85 GiB (2.2%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 950 PRO 256GB 
  size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s 
  lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B0QBXX7 temp: 36.9 C scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM004-2CV104 
  size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: HDD rpm: 5425 serial: <filter> rev: 0001 scheme: GPT 
  ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 840 EVO 250GB 
  size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: CB6Q scheme: GPT 
  ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 QVO 2TB 
  size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q scheme: GPT 
  Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 223.79 GiB size: 219.28 GiB (97.98%) 
  used: 134.85 GiB (61.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 label: N/A 
  uuid: e5d6cdec-1a12-47f5-b816-197ffd9d2b7f 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 label: N/A 
  uuid: 1E0B-6DF9 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  dev: /dev/sdb3 maj-min: 8:19 label: N/A 
  uuid: f8cb95da-7572-4fc8-b8e4-ba9b8d82b664 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 size: 450 MiB fs: ntfs label: Recovery 
  uuid: 5C18F38D18F36484 
  ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 100 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A 
  uuid: 78F7-81E8 
  ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-4: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 237.92 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A 
  uuid: 68E8FF40E8FF0AD8 
  ID-5: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 128 MiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-6: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 2.55 TiB fs: ntfs label: New Volume 
  uuid: 92F210C9F210B387 
  ID-7: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 1024 KiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-8: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 size: 186.26 GiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-9: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 931.5 GiB fs: ntfs label: New Volume 
  uuid: A4B4A0E5B4A0BB66 
  ID-10: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 size: 128 MiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-11: /dev/sdc2 maj-min: 8:34 size: 1.82 TiB fs: ntfs label: Dekolon 
  uuid: 1A946FF1946FCE37 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 16 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-5:2 info: Laview Mionix Naos 7000 type: Mouse,HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 200mA chip-ID: 22d4:130c class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter> 
  Device-2: 1-7:3 info: Logitech Gaming Keyboard G810 type: Keyboard,HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 500mA chip-ID: 046d:c331 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter> 
  Device-3: 1-12:4 info: Logitech G933 Wireless Headset Dongle type: Audio,HID 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 1.1 
  speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 046d:0a5b class-ID: 0300 
  Device-4: 1-13:5 info: ASETEK [NZXT Kraken X60] type: <vendor specific> 
  driver: N/A interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 50mA 
  chip-ID: 2433:b200 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter> 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 10 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 35 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0% 
Info:
  Processes: 339 Uptime: 10h 9m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 248 
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: 1330 pacman: 1312 lib: 410 
  flatpak: 11 snap: 7 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.06

Any ideas on how I can get the system feel snappier?

[Aragorn]

Welcome to the forum!

@NoNa

When browsing the application launcher the gui lags behind by a second or so, if I drag a file or icon around it lags behind the pointer by sometimes several seconds and even when typing I can get a few words ahead of them appearing on screen. If I detach a tab from chrome the whole tab will be stuck for several(10 or so) seconds, slowly moving to wherever I dragged it and often just going back to where it originally was.

From what that sounds like, you appear to have a stuck process. Check your CPU load and process list with htop for anything that might be hogging the CPUs.

[NoNa]

Thanks! I’m really new to manjaro and linux in general so apologies if I misunderstand or am slow to catch on.

I can’t spot anything in htop that stands out as hogging resources, they all shift around and the top ones are typically xorg, chrome and kwin_x11. Never saw any bar hit 20% or above.

[Fabby]

• Kernel 5.12 is EOL so please install both 5.4 and 5.10 LTS (Long Time Support) and see which one of the two troubles you least.
• You probably upgraded your RAM recently and forgot to adapt the swap file, so please read this too although it’s unrelated to your problem.
• Your UEFI firmware looks really old. Check your manufacturer’s website for a “BIOS update” or a “Firmware update”.

@NoNa

I’m really new to manjaro and linux in general

Please read this too:

[HowTo] become a Manjaro power user when you're a wizard at Windows but a N00b at Manjaro / Linux

Difficulty: ☆☆☆☆☆ Remember when you installed your very first Windows, added bells and whistles and then couldn’t see the trees for the wood any more and had to re-install? Well, you’re in the same situation now: You’re a N00b again! Embrace it! I know right now you’re thinking:

Why is this so much more difficult than Windows?

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Whereas in 6 months time, you’ll be like:

Why can't I make Windows jump through fiery hoops like I do with Linux???

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[NoNa]

I’ve spent a bit playing around with different kernels, but noticed no noticable change in the problems I’ve been having.

I read the wiki, and I think it recommends reducing the ram to 6gb, but if I understand it correctly there’s not any disadvantage to having extra?

I’ve updated UEFI to the latest version.

Appreciate the help!

[Fabby]

@NoNa

Appreciate the help!

So does that mean everything works now?

@NoNa

it recommends reducing the ram to 6gb

No, it recommends to have a SWAP file of:

• ROUND(SQRT(RAM)) = ROUND(SQRT(32)) = 6 GByte if you do not use hibernation
• RAM+ROUND(SQRT(RAM)) = 38 GByte if you do use hibernation

I just wanted to warn you that I thought the 8.8 GB value was a weird one, that’s all! Don’t do anything if you don’t use hibernation! 8.8 GB is fine as well!

[NoNa]

Sorry for the confusion, no, there’s no noticable change - the problem is still the same.

I honestly have no idea why it is 8.8GB, but dont use hibernation so I’ll let it be.

[Fabby]

I have about the same specs as you (except just 16GB of RAM, but same GPU, no NVMe but M2 SATA SSDs for boot and HDD for data) and your system should be screamingly fast!

Please reboot and provide the output to:

journalctl --system --boot=0 --priority=3 | tail --lines=75
smartctl --all /dev/nvme0n1
smartctl --all /dev/sda
smartctl --all /dev/sdb
smartctl --all /dev/sdc

(in that order as the first command must be executed as fast as possible after login)

[NoNa]

Mind you, currently have windows installed on the NVMe, while manjaro resides on a sata ssd. I’ve not had issues of the same sort in Windows, which makes me question hardware issues and assume it’s instead my poor configuration skills.

Oh, and the kernel is back at 5.13 just because it defaulted there when rebooting, the former tests was with manually choosing in grub. The problem is evident when typing this forum post out, as I can easily get a word or two ahead of the text appearing after typing.

journalctl --system --boot=0 --priority=3 | tail --lines=75
-- Journal begins at Fri 2020-10-23 20:37:39 CEST, ends at Thu 2021-08-05 17:14:24 CEST. --
aug 05 17:12:14 NoManjaro kernel: x86/cpu: VMX (outside TXT) disabled by BIOS
aug 05 17:12:14 NoManjaro kernel: x86/cpu: SGX disabled by BIOS.
aug 05 17:12:14 NoManjaro kernel: 
aug 05 17:12:19 NoManjaro kernel: usb 1-12: device descriptor read/all, error -110
aug 05 17:12:35 NoManjaro kernel: usb 1-12: device descriptor read/64, error -110
aug 05 17:12:51 NoManjaro kernel: usb 1-12: device descriptor read/64, error -110
aug 05 17:12:56 NoManjaro kernel: usb 1-12: device descriptor read/8, error -110
aug 05 17:13:02 NoManjaro kernel: usb 1-12: device descriptor read/8, error -110
aug 05 17:13:07 NoManjaro kernel: usb 1-12: device descriptor read/8, error -110
aug 05 17:13:12 NoManjaro kernel: usb 1-12: device descriptor read/8, error -110
aug 05 17:13:12 NoManjaro kernel: usb usb1-port12: unable to enumerate USB device

smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.13.5-1-MANJARO] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number:                       Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB
Serial Number:                      S2GLNCAGC21633Y
Firmware Version:                   2B0QBXX7
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID:            0x144d
IEEE OUI Identifier:                0x002538
Controller ID:                      1
NVMe Version:                       <1.2
Number of Namespaces:               1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity:          256 060 514 304 [256 GB]
Namespace 1 Utilization:            192 662 159 360 [192 GB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size:     512
Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64:            002538 5cf1506272
Local Time is:                      Thu Aug  5 17:15:36 2021 CEST
Firmware Updates (0x06):            3 Slots
Optional Admin Commands (0x0007):   Security Format Frmw_DL
Optional NVM Commands (0x001f):     Comp Wr_Unc DS_Mngmt Wr_Zero Sav/Sel_Feat
Log Page Attributes (0x01):         S/H_per_NS
Maximum Data Transfer Size:         32 Pages

Supported Power States
St Op     Max   Active     Idle   RL RT WL WT  Ent_Lat  Ex_Lat
 0 +     6.50W       -        -    0  0  0  0        5       5
 1 +     5.80W       -        -    1  1  1  1       30      30
 2 +     3.60W       -        -    2  2  2  2      100     100
 3 -   0.0700W       -        -    3  3  3  3      500    5000
 4 -   0.0050W       -        -    4  4  4  4     2000   22000

Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1)
Id Fmt  Data  Metadt  Rel_Perf
 0 +     512       0         0

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning:                   0x00
Temperature:                        34 Celsius
Available Spare:                    100%
Available Spare Threshold:          10%
Percentage Used:                    8%
Data Units Read:                    58 184 585 [29,7 TB]
Data Units Written:                 86 502 271 [44,2 TB]
Host Read Commands:                 676 407 516
Host Write Commands:                1 314 299 001
Controller Busy Time:               7 979
Power Cycles:                       718
Power On Hours:                     33 911
Unsafe Shutdowns:                   70
Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
Error Information Log Entries:      1 671

Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 64 entries)
Num   ErrCount  SQId   CmdId  Status  PELoc          LBA  NSID    VS
  0       1671     0  0x0008  0x4004  0x000            0     0     -
  1       1670     0  0x0009  0x4004  0x000            0     0     -
  2       1669     0  0x0016  0x4004  0x000            0     1     -
  3       1668     0  0x0015  0x4004  0x000            0     1     -
  4       1667     0  0x0007  0x4004  0x000            0     0     -
  5       1666     0  0x0017  0x4004  0x000            0     0     -
  6       1665     0  0x0016  0x4004  0x000            0     1     -
  7       1664     0  0x0015  0x4004  0x000            0     1     -
  8       1663     0  0x0016  0x4004  0x000            0     1     -
  9       1662     0  0x0015  0x4004  0x000            0     1     -
 10       1661     0  0x0016  0x4004  0x000            0     1     -
 11       1660     0  0x0015  0x4004  0x000            0     1     -
 12       1659     0  0x0007  0x4004  0x000            0     0     -
 13       1658     0  0x0016  0x4004  0x000            0     1     -
 14       1657     0  0x0015  0x4004  0x000            0     1     -
 15       1656     0  0x0003  0x4004  0x000            0     0     -
... (48 entries not read)

smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.13.5-1-MANJARO] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Seagate BarraCuda 3.5
Device Model:     ST4000DM004-2CV104
Serial Number:    ZFN1W23Q
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 0b48854b4
Firmware Version: 0001
User Capacity:    4 000 787 030 016 bytes [4,00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    5425 rpm
Form Factor:      3.5 inches
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 5
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Thu Aug  5 17:16:08 2021 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
                                        was never started.
                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
                                        without error or no self-test has ever 
                                        been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection:                (    0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:                    (0x73) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                        Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
                                        command.
                                        No Offline surface scan supported.
                                        Self-test supported.
                                        Conveyance Self-test supported.
                                        Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
                                        power-saving mode.
                                        Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
                                        General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time:        (   1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        ( 481) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (   2) minutes.
SCT capabilities:              (0x30a5) SCT Status supported.
                                        SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   081   064   006    Pre-fail  Always       -       133616440
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   097   096   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       -       922
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   075   060   045    Pre-fail  Always       -       30978939
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   086   086   000    Old_age   Always       -       12897 (209 74 0)
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   097    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       -       575
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0032   100   100   099    Old_age   Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       0 0 1
189 High_Fly_Writes         0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   070   063   040    Old_age   Always       -       30 (Min/Max 28/30)
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       37
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   098   098   000    Old_age   Always       -       4875
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   030   040   000    Old_age   Always       -       30 (0 12 0 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   081   064   000    Old_age   Always       -       133616440
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       12205h+21m+12.602s
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       15881728208
242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       24879723827

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.13.5-1-MANJARO] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Samsung based SSDs
Device Model:     Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB
Serial Number:    S1DBNEADA06646D
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 8500a32cb
Firmware Version: EXT0CB6Q
User Capacity:    250 059 350 016 bytes [250 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
TRIM Command:     Available
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2, ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4c
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Thu Aug  5 17:16:20 2021 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
See vendor-specific Attribute list for marginal Attributes.

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
                                        was never started.
                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
                                        without error or no self-test has ever 
                                        been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection:                ( 4800) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:                    (0x53) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                        Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
                                        command.
                                        No Offline surface scan supported.
                                        Self-test supported.
                                        No Conveyance Self-test supported.
                                        Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
                                        power-saving mode.
                                        Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
                                        General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time:        (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (  80) minutes.
SCT capabilities:              (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
                                        SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
                                        SCT Feature Control supported.
                                        SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   090   090   000    Old_age   Always       -       47829
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   098   098   000    Old_age   Always       -       1188
177 Wear_Leveling_Count     0x0013   088   088   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       137
179 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot   0x0013   100   001   010    Pre-fail  Always   In_the_past 0
181 Program_Fail_Cnt_Total  0x0032   100   100   010    Old_age   Always       -       0
182 Erase_Fail_Count_Total  0x0032   100   100   010    Old_age   Always       -       0
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0013   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
187 Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0032   074   053   000    Old_age   Always       -       26
195 ECC_Error_Rate          0x001a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
199 CRC_Error_Count         0x003e   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
235 POR_Recovery_Count      0x0012   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       66
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       27457879863

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.13.5-1-MANJARO] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     Samsung SSD 860 QVO 2TB
Serial Number:    S4CYNF0M429668J
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 e40ef6964
Firmware Version: RVQ02B6Q
User Capacity:    2 000 398 934 016 bytes [2,00 TB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
Form Factor:      2.5 inches
TRIM Command:     Available, deterministic, zeroed
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   ACS-4 T13/BSR INCITS 529 revision 5
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Thu Aug  5 17:16:35 2021 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
                                        was never started.
                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
                                        without error or no self-test has ever 
                                        been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection:                (    0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:                    (0x53) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                        Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
                                        command.
                                        No Offline surface scan supported.
                                        Self-test supported.
                                        No Conveyance Self-test supported.
                                        Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
                                        power-saving mode.
                                        Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
                                        General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time:        (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        ( 160) minutes.
SCT capabilities:              (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
                                        SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
                                        SCT Feature Control supported.
                                        SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   098   098   000    Old_age   Always       -       7722
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       520
177 Wear_Leveling_Count     0x0013   099   099   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       8
179 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot   0x0013   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
181 Program_Fail_Cnt_Total  0x0032   100   100   010    Old_age   Always       -       0
182 Erase_Fail_Count_Total  0x0032   100   100   010    Old_age   Always       -       0
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0013   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0032   077   051   000    Old_age   Always       -       23
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
235 Unknown_Attribute       0x0012   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       19
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       9887667465

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
  256        0    65535  Read_scanning was never started
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

[Fabby]

1. Please stay on 5.10 as a default while we’re looking what is wrong (change GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true)
2. Can you unplug the wireless headset dongle and reboot and see if that helps?
3. Can you do the same with the NVMe? (keeping the wireless headset dongle out too)

[NoNa]

1. Done
2. Done, the error-messages regarding the usb-stuff is gone, but problem persists.

-- Journal begins at Fri 2020-10-23 20:37:39 CEST, ends at Thu 2021-08-05 17:50:22 CEST. --
aug 05 17:49:18 NoManjaro kernel: x86/cpu: VMX (outside TXT) disabled by BIOS
aug 05 17:49:18 NoManjaro kernel:

3. This will take me a bit as it’s a bit hard to reach inside the case. Would disabling it in bios be enough or ir physically removing it a better idea?

[Fabby]

@NoNa

Would disabling it in bios be enough

Good enough…

And if that doesn’t solve the problem, output to:

ps aux --sort=-pcpu | head --lines=10

Please?

[NoNa]

As it turns out, there’s no way of disabling it in bios. I’ll try removing it, but it’ll have to wait a week or so. (Need access to the windows install on it and there’s a radiator blocking access to it so it takes a while to get it out and in again)

Apologies if it feels like I’m wasting your time.

Not sure if there’s any point to posting this before I’ve removed the drive, but just in case:

USER         PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
nona        1317 20.2  1.5 4120896 508164 ?      Sl   19:21   0:28 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
nona        1588 11.2  0.7 2762780 254296 ?      Sl   19:21   0:15 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 4 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 5739 -prefMapSize 240888 -jsInit 285176 -parentBuildID 20210722141356 -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 1317 true tab
nona        2228  3.4  0.2 830780 87324 ?        Sl   19:23   0:01 /usr/bin/konsole
nona        1414  2.3  0.4 2572712 154600 ?      Sl   19:21   0:03 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 1 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 1 -prefMapSize 240888 -jsInit 285176 -parentBuildID 20210722141356 -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 1317 true tab
nona         975  1.8  0.6 1715040 211240 ?      Sl   19:09   0:15 /usr/bin/kwin_x11
root         689  1.7  0.1 25283016 64300 tty1   Ss+  19:09   0:15 /usr/lib/Xorg -nolisten tcp -background none -seat seat0 vt1 -auth /var/run/sddm/{33ac5e13-a2c8-44ca-91cc-1241117479a8} -noreset -displayfd 17
nona        1479  1.6  0.7 34126700 246528 ?     Sl   19:21   0:02 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 2 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 4944 -prefMapSize 240888 -jsInit 285176 -parentBuildID 20210722141356 -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 1317 true tab
nona        1036  1.4  1.0 3472580 337876 ?      Sl   19:09   0:12 /usr/bin/plasmashell
nona        1208  0.8  0.1 249416 34164 ?        Ssl  19:09   0:07 /usr/bin/ksystemstats

[Fabby]

Firefox is taking up 1 core of your entire system:

• What happens of you quit Firefox? Does the problem persist?
• Whaty’s the output of nvidia-smi?

[NoNa]

Firefox had nothing but a tab for this forum open, to confirm the exact line you suggested and post the reply, so it shouldnt be very demanding but here’s the outputs:

Fri Aug  6 11:22:03 2021       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 470.57.02    Driver Version: 470.57.02    CUDA Version: 11.4     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce ...  Off  | 00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   33C    P0    45W / 198W |    482MiB /  8111MiB |      1%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A       609      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                     225MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1061      G   /usr/bin/kwin_x11                  53MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1109      G   /usr/bin/plasmashell               61MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1474      G   ...AAAAAAAAA= --shared-files      137MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

USER         PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
nona        1061  1.9  0.3 1282948 126196 ?      Sl   11:03   0:25 /usr/bin/kwin_x11
root         609  1.5  0.1 25283788 65056 tty1   Ss+  11:03   0:20 /usr/lib/Xorg -nolisten tcp -background none -seat seat0 vt1 -auth /var/run/sddm/{f92aa893-3de0-4556-81a4-049913632151} -noreset -displayfd 17
nona        1109  1.5  1.1 3677392 376612 ?      Sl   11:03   0:20 /usr/bin/plasmashell
nona        1298  0.8  0.1 249248 34228 ?        Ssl  11:03   0:11 /usr/bin/ksystemstats
nona        2426  0.6  0.2 831868 88564 ?        Sl   11:21   0:01 /usr/bin/konsole
root         628  0.5  0.0      0     0 ?        S    11:03   0:06 [irq/147-nvidia]
nona        1164  0.4  0.0 576384 15572 ?        S<sl 11:03   0:06 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal
root         630  0.3  0.0      0     0 ?        S    11:03   0:04 [nv_queue]
dbus         529  0.1  0.0   9396  5540 ?        Ss   11:03   0:01 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only

[Fabby]

@NoNa

but it’ll have to wait a week or so.