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Every few minutes, my system seems to stall or lag for a couple of seconds. I can't do anything but move the mouse when it happens.
It happens across GNOME and KDE, and happened on both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs. So it's not a GPU problem.
The issue does not happen on Windows, at all. Windows 10 works perfectly.
Help me narrow down what could be causing it please, it has been badly souring my Linux experience for a good month+ now.
PC Info is on my profile.
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 1 October 2023 at 11:19 am UTC
You'll probably want to be monitoring RAM use, IO and possibly CPU load to see if any of them spike as you experience the symptoms.
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Have you tried different kernels ?
Have looked into your ssd/hdd ? Maybe do some benchmarking and/or use smarttools to see if there could be something there.
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 1 October 2023 at 11:26 am UTC
Do you experience these issues on a clean boot (no suspend, full reboot)? Suspend can sometimes cause issues like that.
Did you recently switch to AMD pstate with kernel updates? Could it be a bug there?
Edit: and of course the usual: Any errors/messages printed in dmesg / journalctl -xr relating to it?
Last edited by BlackBloodRum on 1 October 2023 at 11:33 am UTC
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for anyone who might stumble on this thread who may be experiencing momentary lags that seem to reoccur at a timed interval on Gnome. If you are using the weather extension 'OpenWeather' there is a bug (or feature i guess) that will hitch the desktop every time the extension checks the weather and stall whatever you are doing. The fix is simple, you go into the settings on the extension and 'un-check' the System Icons button.
Quite often extensions on ANY desktop environment can cause system wide lags, 'judders' and even memory leaks. Starting off fresh with a vanilla panel without everything added will be a good start. It doesnt have to be an 'app', it could be a social media plugin that checks for new channels coming online for instance, just some tray panel indicator that does something funky.
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Last edited by Lofty on 1 October 2023 at 3:43 pm UTC
For that matter, boot up to console and see if the stalling affects your keystrokes. It could be a kernel issue affecting you.
Desktop daemons too... you say both KDE and Gnome, but if switching between them some of those may stay running, particularly if they have polluted a saved session.
Silly things like those desktop search indexers can cause iowait like that.
Sensor monitoring programs polling all your sensors 10 times a second can stuff things up too, I've found.
I hope you get it solved. I couldn't have put up with it for that long :-)
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journalctl -f
might yield something