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linux mint became super slow (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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so im not sure if this is update related or storage related. somewhere online told me to check 'page faults' and theyre at 16998 MINFL and 114 MAJFL. i ran out of storage on my ssd so i clesred half of it by deleting timeshift snapshots (and disabled it). it's still running like a slug. once an application is open, it's fine. but beforehand? it takes 20 seconds to open vlc. loading a new .mp3 audio for vlc takes maybe 10 or so. it started before the update when i totallt ran our of stroage so i assume it's that. im confused as to if it's some process stealing resources.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I agree with the other comment to beware and look at getting a new drive in case this one is shitting the bed.

If it were my system I would look for any signs of disk related errors in the logs (likely would show in /var/log/syslog or maybe kern.log).

Also, did you empty your trash (if you used GUI to kill the files)?

You verified the disk has free space right? (Via df or whatever GUI tool, maybe disks or the file manager)

Another thing I might look at out of curiosity is disk io stats. Is the disk swamped with IO for some reason? We're assuming the bottleneck is disk io but then again maybe something else weird is going on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

PS: if the disk fills up after deleting files (with rm) then some process may be the cause. Use the iotop command to show what processes are doing the most reading and writing, similar to top but for io.

If you haven't you can also hunt down the biggest directories either with a disk usage analyzer or command line. Cd into whatever to level directly (your home dir) then: sudo du -dk | sort -n

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I would also look at the SMART data and run a test.