Very laggy UI and high system usage

I recently installed Manjaro KDE 21.0.2,.

At installation, I faced no problem and the OS was pretty smooth but with each boot I found the system becoming slower. I did customise a bit here and there but I tried to make sure it didn’t have any other unnecessary background processes, but with all done the system just becomes too laggy and slow after inputs and most of the interface just becomes an outline when called upon

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.30-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64 
  root=UUID=01a33e17-66de-489f-a806-62508a022814 rw quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 
  dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15g-dr0xxx 
  v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: HP model: 84A7 v: 80.31 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.07 
  date: 11/21/2018 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 32.7 Wh (100.0%) condition: 32.7/41.0 Wh (79.7%) 
  volts: 12.8 min: 11.4 model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion 
  serial: <filter> status: Full 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8250U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: A (10) 
  microcode: E0 cache: L2: 6 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 28800 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 400/3400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 798 
  4: 793 5: 800 6: 800 7: 797 8: 793 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  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 generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5917 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce MX110] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: nouveau v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:174e class-ID: 0302 
  Device-3: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP TrueVision HD Camera 
  type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:4 chip-ID: 05c8:03c7 class-ID: 0e02 
  serial: <filter> 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
  loaded: intel,nouveau unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa 
  display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
  s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
  Monitor-1: eDP1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 143 size: 340x190mm (13.4x7.5") 
  diag: 389mm (15.3") 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.1 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 
  chip-ID: 8086:9d71 class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.30-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.25 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 
  chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtl8821ce v: N/A 
  modules: rtw88_8821ce,8821ce port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c821 
  class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Realtek Bluetooth 4.2 Adapter type: USB driver: btusb 
  v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-6:5 chip-ID: 0bda:b00a class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends 
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci 
  v: 3.0 port: 6060 bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086.282a rev: 21 class-ID: 0104 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 946.42 GiB used: 242.17 GiB (25.6%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: RSM7 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Switch 
  size: 14.91 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> 
  rev: 1.27 scheme: MBR 
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 100 GiB size: 97.87 GiB (97.87%) used: 21.14 GiB (21.6%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 476 MiB size: 475.1 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 436 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 618.05 GiB size: 607.28 GiB (98.26%) 
  used: 167.52 GiB (27.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.45 GiB used: 739.6 MiB (9.7%) 
  priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 57.0 C mobo: 29.8 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 250 Uptime: 1h 26m wakeups: 1 Memory: 7.57 GiB 
  used: 5.37 GiB (71.0%) Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl Compilers: 
  gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.1.0 Packages: 1381 pacman: 1365 lib: 364 flatpak: 0 
  snap: 16 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.0

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:+1: Welcome to Manjaro! :+1:

You’re a heavy user on a light machine.

Please:

  • Reboot

  • provide the output of:

    free --human
    swapon
    
  • Use your machine

  • Provide the same information above yet again the moment the lagginess starts on top of the below:

    for szFile in /proc/*/status ; do
      awk '/VmSwap|Name/{printf $2 "\t" $3}END{ print "" }' "$szFile"
    done | sort --key 2 --numeric --reverse | head --lines=20
    

:thinking:

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