[Solved] Fresh installation has poor performance

[mankoon]

Hello. I have installed Manjaro on my desktop alongside win10 and it has low performance in some apps:

• Firefox scrolling is very slow; when scrolling a web-page in Firefox, htop sometimes shows up to 80% load of a core;
• Sometimes SMPlayer freeze system including GUI while sound is still playing;
• Qt Creator quiet slow but compiling simple app seems fast;
• Sometimes xfce4-terminal opens with 0.5-1 sec delay;
• Sublime Text 3 scrolls very slow.

During installation Microsoft EFI partition was of unknown type so I created additional partition and edited efibootmgr to have Manjaro bootloader first, partitions are:
/dev/sda1 - MS reserved partition
/dev/sda2 - Win10
/dev/sda3 - EFI partition created with “boot” flag and mounted in /boot/efi
/dev/sda4 - /
/dev/sda5 - /home

<<< inxi -Fza
System:    Kernel: 5.9.16-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.9-x86_64 root=UUID=8b9fb7be-8931-4c9a-93ef-d351e7854fb6 ro quiet apparmor=1 
           security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B450 Steel Legend serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: P3.20 
           date: 11/27/2019 
CPU:       Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 family: 17 (23) model-id: 71 (113) 
           stepping: N/A microcode: 8701013 L2 cache: 3 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 86269 
           Speed: 2795 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2795 2: 1862 3: 2788 4: 1858 5: 1862 
           6: 1862 7: 2795 8: 1861 9: 2792 10: 1858 11: 1857 12: 1860 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
           Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           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 AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GK107 [GeForce GTX 650] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia v: 460.32.03 
           alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 09:00.0 chip ID: 10de:0fc6 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: nvidia display ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3360x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 889x286mm (35.0x11.3") s-diag: 934mm (36.8") 
           Monitor-1: VGA-0 res: 1440x900 hz: 60 dpi: 85 size: 428x255mm (16.9x10.0") diag: 498mm (19.6") 
           Monitor-2: HDMI-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 305 size: 160x90mm (6.3x3.5") diag: 184mm (7.2") 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 650/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.32.03 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: NVIDIA GK107 HDMI Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 09:00.1 
           chip ID: 10de:0e1b 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 0b:00.4 chip ID: 1022:1487 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.16-1-MANJARO 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASRock driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 
           bus ID: 08:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: enp8s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: ASUSTek WL-167G v3 802.11n Adapter [Realtek RTL8188SU] type: USB driver: r8712u bus ID: 3-2:3 
           chip ID: 0b05:1791 serial: <filter> 
           IF: wlp11s0f3u2 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 3.86 TiB used: 1.52 TiB (39.4%) 
           SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: SUV400S37240G size: 223.57 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B 
           logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 37R5 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM048-2E7172 size: 931.51 GiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: SDM1 
           ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Western Digital model: WD20PURZ-85GU6Y0 size: 1.82 TiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 0A80 
           ID-4: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 type: USB vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB size: 931.51 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 0419 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 53.71 GiB size: 52.62 GiB (97.96%) used: 10.54 GiB (20.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%) used: 328 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 
           ID-3: /home raw size: 61.92 GiB size: 60.7 GiB (98.02%) used: 45.26 GiB (74.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
           maj-min: 8:5 
Swap:      Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 47.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 33 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 48% 
Info:      Processes: 281 Uptime: 19h 13m wakeups: 0 Memory: 15.56 GiB used: 2.44 GiB (15.7%) Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: 
           gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1193 lib: 395 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 
           running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.2.02 

[megavolt]

Hello @mankoon

@mankoon

Firefox scrolling is very slow; when scrolling a web-page in Firefox, htop sometimes shows up to 80% load of a core;

@mankoon

Sublime Text 3 scrolls very slow.

This could be related to the gpu driver (acceleration) or you have not much RAM. In case you have not much RAM no swap is there:

@mankoon

Swap: Alert: No Swap data was found.

That results in slow scrolling and system freezes if the RAM is full. However 16GB RAM should be enough…

It is always good to have at least a swapfile active with some space (about 512MB, 16GB*1.5=24GB are recommend).

What says?

free -h

@mankoon

Kernel: 5.9.16-1-MANJARO

Also Kernel 5.9 is EOL and already dropped. Switch to 5.10 or stay on 5.4. https://www.kernel.org/

[mankoon]

Hi,
I updated kernel to 5.10.7-3, but problems persisted.

free -h
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           15Gi       1,0Gi        13Gi       101Mi       845Mi        14Gi
Swap:            0B          0B          0B

I’m not loading my RAM with anything.
How can I check GPU driver?

[megavolt]

@mankoon

I guess it is this problem with older GPUs:

[SOLVED] GT520 + linux54 5.4.85-1 + linux54-nvidia-390xx 390.138-2 = absolutely terrible performance

[[Stable Update] 2020-12-30 - Kernels, KDE, Cinnamon, LibreOffice, Python 3.9, Mesa 20.3.1] Firefox is unbearably slow and is consuming 100% CPU, I can barely type this post games are running at slide show speed GUI is noticeable slow(ish), too Solved. By adding Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" EndSection to /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf (the problem was loading the “wrong” libglx.so with llvmpipe as a renderer) (as suggested in th…

Seems to persist in 460xx according to your experience.

[mankoon]

Thanks!
I switched to nouveau and it’s become much better.