Memory issue KDE Plasma Manjaro Lenovo Ideacentre 4GB RAM

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@vikram72

There was a very major update offered today in which my installation updated 420 packages.

After this update, my Manjaro installation is sluggish, slow, and cache has swelled by 50% , RAM being consumed is much more and SWAP is also not very efficient though it is working.

Manjaro is working, not freezing, but it’s just not up to the mark on my hardware after today’s update.

Ultimately the solution appears to be physical upgrade of RAM. In my hardware, the maximum allowed physical RAM is 8GB so I suppose I’ll have to switch to a lighter distro like LXQt when Manjaro KDE outgrows 8GB

One question, ¿have you got an mechanical HDD or a SSD drive?

Another question: ¿have you seen with top command which processes are slowing down your computer?

And finally a tip: change baloo (KDE’s indexer) default behaviour as seen in this thread:

Baloo indexing high CPU and memory usage when idle

Hi @CarrotDLaw, Baloo can be slow and a resource hog, yes. I suggest you change your settings in System Settings → Workspace → Search → File Search to not include file contents or hidden files/folders. Like mine: [image] Then delete the index and rebuild it. So stop and disable baloo: balooctl stop balooctl disable Then remove the current index: rm -fr .local/share/baloo Enable baloo again: balooctl enable Make doubly sure the index is empty: balooctl purge And re-index it all: b…