srezas
25 September 2022 07:58
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Before this fresh installation of Manjaro Plasma, I had dual-booted Manjaro xfce alongside Ubuntu Gnome on my SSD hard drive. Despite all I’ve heard about the low performance of Gnome DE, It was a lot better than Manjaro xfce!
Now a day past after the fresh installation of Manjaro Plasma instead of that dual-boot and I’m already exhausted by how slow it is.
srezas@pc:~$ neofetch
██████████████████ ████████ srezas@pc
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██████████████████ ████████ OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
██████████████████ ████████ Host: 80NV Lenovo ideapad Y700-15ISK
████████ ████████ Kernel: 5.15.60-1-MANJARO
████████ ████████ ████████ Uptime: 22 mins
████████ ████████ ████████ Packages: 1064 (pacman)
████████ ████████ ████████ Shell: bash 5.1.16
████████ ████████ ████████ Resolution: 1920x1080
████████ ████████ ████████ DE: Plasma 5.24.6
████████ ████████ ████████ WM: KWin
████████ ████████ ████████ Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
████████ ████████ ████████ Icons: [Plasma], breeze-dark [GTK2/3]
████████ ████████ ████████ Terminal: konsole
CPU: Intel i7-6700HQ (8) @ 3.500GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
GPU: Intel HD Graphics 530
Memory: 2826MiB / 15827MiB
srezas@pc:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA ST1000LM035-1RK1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 1000GB 1000GB ext4
Model: SAMSUNG MZVLW128HEGR-000L2 (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 128GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 538MB 537MB fat32 boot, esp
2 538MB 4833MB 4295MB linux-swap(v1) swap, legacy_boot
3 4833MB 36.3GB 31.5GB ext4 # empty partition for possible future use
4 36.3GB 128GB 91.7GB ext4 # root partition
/dev/nvme0n1 is SSD and /dev/sda is HDD.
The bootloader is UEFI
Ubuntu often performs its own optimizations on its kernels. Also mostly don’t leave the gnome original.
Otherwise, I rather think that the difference in speed comes from the respective desktop.
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And I have found the opposite: Manjaro being faster, more snappy than Ubuntu.
So I’m guessing it’s subjective.
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Is Manjaro KDE installed to the partition on the Seagate 2.5" 5400rpm hard drive ?
Please post more information about system including GPU driver
inxi -Fazy
6x12
25 September 2022 15:40
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4295MB linux-swap(v1) swap, legacy_boot
Not the reason for slow performance but an odd swap setup for a 16GB ram machine. What does the legacy_boot flag bring on an uefi machine with gpt drives?
srezas
26 September 2022 08:37
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I didn’t set this. I even reinstalled the manjaro to fix it but it didn’t show anywhere.this problem and I wonder if it’s actually the reason of low performance.
format and set file system part of the linuxswap ?
srezas
26 September 2022 08:46
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No it’s installed on the Samsung
Here is the Drivers part of the inxi command:
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.04 TiB used: 310.16 GiB (29.1%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
model: MZVLW128HEGR-000L2 size: 119.24 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 1L1QCXB7 temp: 42.9 C scheme: GPT
SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 91d 18h cycles: 4,101 read-units: 34,974,005
[17.9 TB] written-units: 33,469,961 [17.1 TB]
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172
family: Mobile HDD size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B sata: 3.1 speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400
serial: <filter> rev: LCM2 temp: 33 C scheme: GPT
SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 1y 39d 20h cycles: 4067
Old-Age: g-sense error rate: 107 Pre-Fail: attribute: Spin_Retry_Count
value: 100 worst: 100 threshold: 97
Here is the Graphics part of the inxi command:
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel
arch: Gen-9 process: Intel 14n built: 2015-16 ports: active: eDP-1
empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:191b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] vendor: Lenovo driver: nvidia
v: 515.65.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 515.xx+ status: current
(as of 2022-07) arch: Maxwell code: GMxxx process: TSMC 28nm
built: 2014-19 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3
speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:139b class-ID: 0302
Device-3: Acer Lenovo EasyCamera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-6:3
chip-ID: 5986:0672 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: server: X.org v: 1.21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3
compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-size: <missing: xdpyinfo>
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: BOE Display 0x0687 built: 2015 res: 1920x1080
hz: 60 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.6
direct render: Yes
Note that I’m running the commands on the Manjaro Gnome live boot
srezas
26 September 2022 08:55
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Also I think it is worth the mention that in live boot the performance is great
srezas
26 September 2022 09:08
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I don’t see the mention of swap, legacy_boot anywhere in the manual partitioning summary! I guessed that it might have been because of this problem
Just post the whole damn inxi geeze.
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in live boot the performance is great
If there is no performance issue when system is booted from Live ISO, system data from Live ISO is not helpful for diagnosing alleged problem with installed OS
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