I understand that this topic specifically has likely been discussed dozens if not hundreds of times and I could potentially just read out the documentation on the manjaro website but I felt the need to post this here anyways because dealing with such issues is already making me lose the patience to read the documentation instead out of frustration, not to mention potential differences in overall system integrity and/or layout affecting the performance of the machine im using could affect the troubleshooting process.
I wanted to discuss with everyone here who is available to assist me in knowing how I could potentially speed up my system, most notably the boot up timing (and overall general software performance if possible).
I’m relatively new to Manjaro, Linux in general even and wanted to find out a way to optimize the performance of an old gaming laptop I wanted to be put to good use for a buddy of mine who just wanted to play more lightweight games on it, most exclusively CS:GO. I had Manjaro installed through on an iso by flash drive for the first time and whilst it originally worked far better than what Windows 10 was previously slowing down to before the installation, I still feel that the performance I’m getting is very sub-optimal. Yes I know I am running on a machine with a HDD and not a SSD, yes I know this thing is like probably 6 years old or something similar in old age for a computer, but still.
As for another thing, I am getting the message “Configuration file “/var/lib/sddm/.config/sddm-greeterrc” not writable” on bootup. I wanted to double check but given the system info I’ll be giving below or any other info that is useful in any future replies/edits, is sudo chown -R sddm:sddm /var/lib/sddm/.config an accurate solution? I saw this in another post but wasn’t sure if it would apply universally or if it would be different for me.
systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 8.812s (firmware) + 26.889s (loader) + 23.499s (kernel) + 20.891s (userspace) = 1min 20.092s
graphical.target reached after 20.891s in userspace.
systemd-analyze blame
4.136s dev-mapper-luks\x2d62fc1762\x2d64c6\x2d4cd2\x2dbe81\x2d85ceb4cea190.device
3.670s plymouth-quit.service
3.652s plymouth-quit-wait.service
1.848s ModemManager.service
1.488s cups.service
1.445s boot-efi.mount
1.359s NetworkManager.service
1.199s lvm2-monitor.service
1.190s plymouth-start.service
975ms udisks2.service
930ms systemd-vconsole-setup.service
912ms polkit.service
908ms systemd-udevd.service
901ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
725ms upower.service
722ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-1CE3\x2d6D89.service
671ms bluetooth.service
663ms systemd-logind.service
646ms systemd-journal-flush.service
624ms dbus.service
576ms systemd-modules-load.service
469ms systemd-random-seed.service
387ms wpa_supplicant.service
359ms systemd-cryptsetup@luks\x2d62fc1762\x2d64c6\x2d4cd2\x2dbe81\x2d85ceb4cea190.service
274ms user@1000.service
267ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
258ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --width
System:
Kernel: 6.1.12-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1-x86_64
root=UUID=02f32c84-53e5-4995-b929-9f24719ef336 rw quiet
cryptdevice=UUID=62fc1762-64c6-4cd2-be81-85ceb4cea190:luks-62fc1762-64c6-4cd2-be81-85ceb4cea190
root=/dev/mapper/luks-62fc1762-64c6-4cd2-be81-85ceb4cea190 splash
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.26.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.8 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Nitro AN515-42 v: V1.18
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: RR model: Freed_RRS v: V1.18 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: Insyde v: 1.18 date: 06/18/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 35.6 Wh (100.0%) condition: 35.6/48.9 Wh (72.8%)
volts: 16.3 min: 15.2 model: LG 0x41,0x43,0x31,0x34,0x42,0x38,0x0064
type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: full
Memory:
RAM: total: 6.68 GiB used: 2.95 GiB (44.2%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 2500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Zen level: v3 note: check built: 2017-19 process: GF 14nm
family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x11 (17) stepping: 0 microcode: 0x810100B
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x64 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 4x512 KiB L3: 4 MiB
desc: 1x4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1502 high: 1867 min/max: 1600/2000 boost: enabled
scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1432 2: 1428
3: 1561 4: 1593 5: 1387 6: 1867 7: 1380 8: 1371 bogomips: 31949
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 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: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT vulnerable
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: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
disabled, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Baffin [Radeon RX 460/560D / Pro 450/455/460/555/555X/560/560X]
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-4
code: Arctic Islands process: GF 14nm built: 2016-20 pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:67ef class-ID: 0380 temp: 35.0 C
Device-2: AMD Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series]
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-5 code: Vega
process: GF 14nm built: 2017-20 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:15dd
class-ID: 0300 temp: 43.0 C
Device-3: Quanta HD Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-1:2
chip-ID: 0408:a060 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.7 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi
gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP model: LG Display 0x05d8 built: 2018
res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64")
diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.5 renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (raven
LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.49 6.1.12-1-MANJARO) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 1-1.3:5
chip-ID: 0d8c:0005 pcie: class-ID: 0300 gen: 3 serial: <filter>
speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 04:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:15de class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 04:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: C-Media Blue Snowball type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
Sound API: ALSA v: k6.1.12-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 running: no
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.1 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp2s0f1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Lite-On driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:003e class-ID: 0280 temp: 48.0 C
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
Message: Output throttled. IPs: 4; Limit: 10; Override: --limit [1-x;-1
all]
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Lite-On type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-4:3
chip-ID: 04ca:3016 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
Device-1: luks-62fc1762-64c6-4cd2-be81-85ceb4cea190 maj-min: 254:0
type: LUKS dm: dm-0 size: 931.21 GiB
Components:
p-1: sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 931.22 GiB
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 960.17 GiB used: 53.6 GiB (5.6%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HTS721010A9E630
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: A3J0 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Glide
size: 28.65 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A
serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 931.21 GiB size: 915.52 GiB (98.32%) used: 53.6 GiB (5.9%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-62fc1762-64c6-4cd2-be81-85ceb4cea190 label: N/A
uuid: 02f32c84-53e5-4995-b929-9f24719ef336
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 472 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
uuid: 1CE3-6D89
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
file: /swapfile
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 size: 28.65 GiB fs: vfat label: N/A
uuid: D240-C951
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: VIA Labs USB2.0 Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip-ID: 2109:2817 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-1.1:4 info: SanDisk Cruzer Glide type: Mass Storage
driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 200mA
chip-ID: 0781:5575 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 1-1.3:5 info: C-Media Blue Snowball type: Audio,HID
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0d8c:0005 class-ID: 0300
serial: <filter>
Device-3: 1-1.4:6 info: Logitech G502 SE HERO Gaming Mouse type: Mouse,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 300mA
chip-ID: 046d:c08b class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Device-4: 1-4:3 info: Lite-On type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 04ca:3016 class-ID: e001
Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: VIA Labs USB3.0 Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.2 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 2109:0817 class-ID: 0900
Hub-5: 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: 3-1:2 info: Quanta HD Webcam type: Video driver: uvcvideo
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0408:a060
class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Hub-6: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 1 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 42.2 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 34.0 C watts: 6.00 device: amdgpu temp: 42.0 C
Info:
Processes: 274 Uptime: 42m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 252 default: graphical
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.1 clang: 15.0.7 Packages: pm: pacman
pkgs: 1301 libs: 417 tools: octopi,pamac,yay pm: flatpak pkgs: 0 Shell: Zsh
v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.25
Any help would be appreciated.
