On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 6:36 AM Ralph Corderoy via arch-general
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Rivera,
>
> > Superficial symptoms are a general slowness. I'm using just IceWM and
> > `startx` to initialize the GUI, and even logging into my account
> > previous to that takes almost a minute to get done.
>
> Once logged in, run ‘LC_ALL=C dstat -tap’ and leave it to settle down
> with nothing happening. Then start any of the complex GUI programs you
> mentioned which take a long time. Observe dstat's output to see where
> there's a bottleneck.
>
> $ LC_ALL=C dstat -tap
> ----system---- --total-cpu-usage-- -dsk/total- -net/total- ---paging--
> ---system-- ---procs---
> time |usr sys idl wai stl| read writ| recv send| in out |
> int csw |run blk new
>
> I doubt CPU usr and sys will be the problem; if they are then it
> suggests you CPU got slower. If CPU wai(t) it high then the CPUs are
> stalled from doing work waiting for I/O, e.g. disk reads. Lots of
> paging could show a problem some of the machine's RAM not being used.
>
> Seeing those figures might give you, and us on the list, some idea.
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
Hi, Ralph, thanks a lot, I was away from this machine and now I see
the problem persists.
This is an example from: $ pcp dstat -tap
----system---- ----total-usage---- -dsk/total- -net/total- ---paging--
---system-- ---procs---
time |usr sys idl wai stl| read writ| recv send|
in out | int csw |run blk new
27-10 06:20:57| | |
| | |2.0 1.0
27-10 06:20:58| 3 2 65 31 0| 196k 212k|3432B 1119B|39.0 0
|1793 2269 |1.0 1.5 1.0
27-10 06:20:59| 1 2 79 18 0|1080k 4095B| 432B 221B|26.5 0
|2847 1632 | 0 2.0 0.5
27-10 06:21:00| 1 1 84 13 0| 416k 0 | 404B 381B| 113 0
| 780 1135 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:01| 2 0 86 12 0| 304k 0 | 97B 94B|21.0 0
| 626 938 | 0 1.0 1.0
27-10 06:21:02| 2 1 84 12 0| 304k 0 | 13k 8508B|51.0 0
|1048 1751 | 0 1.0 1.0
27-10 06:21:03| 2 1 83 15 0| 232k 1528k| 0 0 |59.0 0
| 773 1146 | 0 1.0 2.0
27-10 06:21:04| 1 1 75 24 0| 40k 100k| 0 0 |8.00 0
| 737 1152 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:05| 3 0 85 12 0| 80k 0 | 0 0 |19.0 0
| 633 729 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:06| 2 1 85 12 0| 552k 0 | 871B 6056B|48.0 0
| 910 1290 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:07| 3 1 85 12 0| 252k 0 |1684B 5343B|32.0 0
| 973 1722 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:08| 4 1 82 12 0| 168k 84k|5577B 21k|15.0 0
|1313 2424 | 0 1.0 1.0
27-10 06:21:09| 1 0 78 21 0| 20k 124k| 0 0 |5.00 0
| 526 722 | 0 3.0 1.0
27-10 06:21:10| 1 0 76 22 0| 176k 224k| 0 0 |44.0 0
| 802 1084 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:11| 1 0 72 26 0| 84k 112k| 171B 227B|10.0 0
|1309 1032 | 0 3.0 0
27-10 06:21:12| 2 1 78 19 0| 160k 108k| 70B 99B|42.0 0
|1073 1145 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:13| 1 0 83 15 0| 376k 80k| 71B 99B|91.0 0
| 700 1004 | 0 2.0 2.0
27-10 06:21:14| 1 1 74 24 0| 100k 136k| 0 0 |27.0 0
| 675 1032 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:15| 1 0 87 12 0| 32k 0 | 0 0 |6.00 0
| 460 596 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:16| 1 0 82 16 0| 20k 556k| 280B 103B|7.00 0
| 585 769 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:17| 2 0 79 18 0| 96k 260k| 0 0 |22.0 0
| 812 1058 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:18| 2 0 85 12 0| 40k 0 | 0 0 |10.0 0
| 561 760 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:19| 1 0 87 13 0| 268k 0 | 205B 102B|67.0 0
| 495 812 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:20| 1 1 86 12 0| 152k 0 | 0 0 |41.0 0
| 475 689 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:21| 1 0 86 12 0| 264k 0 | 522B 5729B|63.0 0
| 727 1175 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:22| 1 1 87 12 0| 72k 0 | 0 0 |17.0 0
| 480 666 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:23| 2 1 82 15 0| 492k 28k|1463B 1201B|24.0 0
| 739 1244 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:24| 5 1 82 12 0| 384k 0 | 0 0 |39.0 0
|1048 2187 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:25| 5 0 82 12 0| 52k 16k| 0 0 |15.0 0
|1192 908 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:26| 6 2 77 15 0| 336k 0 | 19k 9634B|42.0 0
|2065 5712 | 0 3.0 18
27-10 06:21:27| 4 1 75 20 0| 148k 0 | 25k 7909B|23.0 0
|1713 3171 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:28| 4 1 82 12 0| 372k 0 | 657B 536B|29.0 0
|1022 1543 | 0 2.0 1.0
27-10 06:21:29| 5 1 73 21 0| 220k 76k| 0 94B|28.0 0
|1062 1216 |1.0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:30| 2 0 89 8 0| 124k 132k| 0 0 |11.0 0
| 693 793 | 0 0 0
27-10 06:21:31| 1 1 92 6 0| 52k 0 | 0 0 |15.0 0
|2294 947 | 0 1.0 0
27-10 06:21:32| 3 1 81 15 0| 172k 0 | 307B 574B|44.0 0
|1132 3241 |2.0 3.0 0
27-10 06:21:33| 6 2 59 33 0| 204k 0 | 21k 7401B|37.0 0
|1770 3596 | 0 3.0 0
27-10 06:21:34| 3 1 86 9 0| 52k 20k| 23k 5695B|6.00 0
|1457 2917 | 0 0 0
27-10 06:21:35| 7 1 91 1 0| 36k 44k| 18k 4856B|1.00 0
|1771 4649 |1.0 0 0
27-10 06:21:36| 12 2 83 1 0| 28k 0 |6429B 8614B|2.00 0
|3823 6275 | 0 0 0
27-10 06:21:37| 2 1 97 0 0|4096B 0 | 570B 5830B|1.00 0
| 774 1303 | 0 0 0
I don't know if there's any useful information there...
Running any distro from pendrive (LiveUSB) works fine, so, it seems to
me like some issue with the HDD or the OS...
Any hint would be most welcomed.
Thanks a lot and sorry for the inconvenience.
Kind regards!
