Just after the update of Quonos, I have experienced the following:
At startup, after 10 minutes or so, the disk will churn and control is lost for a few minutes. Then all is well. This recurs with every warm or cold boot.
I am concerned that if I restore I may lose things like my calendar updates, email files (but I have that backed up), etc. Who know what else? It may not even solve the problem. But then it might.I have my main datafiles stored on a second partition with aliases on the startup partition pointing to the folders on the second partition.
If I just turn the computer on and leave it running all day, the problem only happens once, so I can live with it. But shouldn’t have to.
Suggestions please. Please also consider that my technical knowledge of Linux is minimal at best.
How you have the backup of files? Have you tried booting into older kernel and seeing if its just a problem with the kernel (I load other kernels through grub but maybe there is youtube video on how to load a different way)?
The thing is, GNU/Linux is a UNIX operating system, and UNIX was designed to be running 24/7. It does a lot of things in the background while it’s idle, and it also executes a number of scheduled maintenance tasks at night, when the system is expected to be least busy.
Now, if you don’t keep the machine running 24/7, then those scheduled tasks cannot be executed at the planned time, which is why the system will then execute all of the missed maintenance tasks at boot time. This can then indeed result in lots of disk I/O, and it is this intensive I/O which diminishes the response of the system to user input, depending on your hardware specs.
Additional information: I don’t know what desktop environment you’re using ─ you didn’t tell us ─ but if you’re running Plasma, then chances are that it’s just Baloo indexing your files.
You can disable Baloo, or tell it to only index the files but not their content, and/or exclude certain directories from being indexed.
Well, it was a possibility. But what I said earlier still stands, though. It’s just that if you’re using Plasma, then Baloo exacerbates the problem.
I have been told to emphasize that my problem started just after the update of Quonos, it was not happening prior to that. And that the system is locking up. Also that I have an M.2 NVME SSD with two partions, the first of which is where booting into Manjaro takes place. And that I have an Intel 10600K Processor which is pretty fast.
You have also been advised ─ by two people on this thread ─ to look at the list of processes in order to see which process is eating up your CPU cycles.
Beating around the bush isn’t going to help you, nor anyone else here who might be having the same problem as you. If you want this resolved, then you’re going to have to provide us with data we can use.
Enter the directory ~/.config/autostart, create it if it does not exist
Create a file named trackerd.desktop
Paste the following into the file, save and exit:
I wouldnt do it that way…
But also that service comes from tracker3-miners package, which is from Gnome DE while you use XFCE … so why do you have it?