Manjaro uses all my laptop resources

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there is no

cpuinfo_cur_freq

but there are these

cpuinfo_max_freq | cpuinfo_min_freq | cpuinfo_transition_latency

what should i pick?

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already disabled it

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Then use this?

watch -n 1 sudo cpupower monitor
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ok? and ?

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and???

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well, its between 900-1200 is that normal?
it can go to 2000 if i opened a YT vid

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and what is you min and max frequency?

lscpu | grep CPU
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CPU max MHz: 3100.0000
CPU min MHz: 800.0000

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Then it is all fine. Think of this:

If the CPU frequency is scaled at 2000Mhz at this moment, then htop for example will show full load even if you can run it at 3100Mhz. It is a powersaving method to just request what the application needs.

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interesting, so what do you think about the full usage of ram?
also, I’m confused because my Linux mint never used my full CPU and ram over a youtube video plus I work on android studio and since I got manjaro this was impossible because whatever I do I get the system fully loaded and it gets froze

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Could you post the output of:

free -h

when you think you are using a lot of ram?

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ill try even tho it’s not that easy to do so because as I said once my sys use all of my cpu and ram the whole thing freeze i cant even use the terminal at this point

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Try to open a TTY with CTRL+ALT+F2 (to type the command). ALT+F1 to go back to desktop.

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Do you have a swapfile/partition?

swapon

and could you post this output also?

cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
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if is video, I suppose web browser(or video driver) not use gpu

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i do have swap of 8gb and

cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

output is 60

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:ok:

That is for example my normal usage (firefox uses the most ram):

              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:          7,8Gi       2,8Gi       148Mi       526Mi       4,8Gi       4,2Gi
Swap:          11Gi       1,0Mi        11Gi

When you run your normal applications. How much is it?

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Quick dirty command if you want to log the five first lines (sorted by memory usage) from command top, every five seconds, you can try this in a terminal, it will write the output in a file called loopmem.log and you could maybe see which program is taking all the memory before freeze maybe?:

while sleep 5; do top -b -c -i -w512 -n2 -o+%MEM|awk '/^top/{i++}i==2' | grep 'PID' -A 5 >> loopmem.log; done
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I had the same probleme my i had manjaro 20 kde installed on my laptop and it always got frozen when im using more than 3 tabs and visual studio code running i can even put some music o play a video if not i get stuck and i have to power of manually is this normal i Uninstall windows and put manjaro now im thinking if I made a good choice or i have to move to ubuntu o kali instead