I just noticed that pamac-checkupdates seems to be taking up a lot of system resources. top shows separate processes running for each logged-in user (usually three), with each taking >90% cpu and constantly switching between the different instances. Memory use for each is ~15% and stable. I’m runni…

If pamac-checkupdates is running then yes you are using pamac’s checkupdates functionality. Open the GUI preferences and disable the check [image] nd3i: error: failed to synchronize all databases (unable to lock databases) this means another process has locked using /var/lib/pacman/db.lck -…

Pamac-checkupdates seems to be hyperactive

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linux-aarhus 9 March 2025 04:37 2

Please disable update check for AUR packages as this process can be resource hungry.

It could be you have forgotten to remove community repo in pacman.conf