Manjaro very slow and stuttering while pacman -Syu is running
Whenever I do a sizeable pacman -Syu (~100s of packages) Manjaro (with Cinnamon) becomes very slow and unresponsive. Although the CPU usage seems to stay below 10% (probably just saturating one core) the GUI occasionally becomes very stuttery and unresponsive for 5-30 secs. Even keyboard commands are processed after a several-second delay. This seems to depend on package being updated, since whenever the stuttering happens, it often stops as soon as the package finished updating.
I've tried switching the terminal process to Very Low priority but that hasn't improved the situation. I suspect that in any case the problem is the number of files in the package, so I don't think priority would necessarily be useful.
Besides going through the pacman log and hoping to find a useful error message, is there a way of diagnosing and troubleshooting the problem? At this point all I know is that updating causes massive lag, but I have no idea what to search for or where to look for more details. Alternatively, is this a known issue with an easy solution?
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Whenever I do a sizeable pacman -Syu (~100s of packages) Manjaro (with Cinnamon) becomes very slow and unresponsive. Although the CPU usage seems to stay below 10% (probably just saturating one core) the GUI occasionally becomes very stuttery and unresponsive for 5-30 secs. Even keyboard commands are processed after a several-second delay. This seems to depend on package being updated, since whenever the stuttering happens, it often stops as soon as the package finished updating.
I've tried switching the terminal process to Very Low priority but that hasn't improved the situation. I suspect that in any case the problem is the number of files in the package, so I don't think priority would necessarily be useful.
Besides going through the pacman log and hoping to find a useful error message, is there a way of diagnosing and troubleshooting the problem? At this point all I know is that updating causes massive lag, but I have no idea what to search for or where to look for more details. Alternatively, is this a known issue with an easy solution?
pacman
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Rui F Ribeiro
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Your setup rig and what it is doing is not described here, it is not possible to say something meaningful
– Rui F Ribeiro
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Whenever I do a sizeable pacman -Syu (~100s of packages) Manjaro (with Cinnamon) becomes very slow and unresponsive. Although the CPU usage seems to stay below 10% (probably just saturating one core) the GUI occasionally becomes very stuttery and unresponsive for 5-30 secs. Even keyboard commands are processed after a several-second delay. This seems to depend on package being updated, since whenever the stuttering happens, it often stops as soon as the package finished updating.
I've tried switching the terminal process to Very Low priority but that hasn't improved the situation. I suspect that in any case the problem is the number of files in the package, so I don't think priority would necessarily be useful.
Besides going through the pacman log and hoping to find a useful error message, is there a way of diagnosing and troubleshooting the problem? At this point all I know is that updating causes massive lag, but I have no idea what to search for or where to look for more details. Alternatively, is this a known issue with an easy solution?
pacman
edited 1 hour ago
Rui F Ribeiro
41.5k1483140
asked 1 hour ago
BagalawBagalaw
2091314
Whenever I do a sizeable pacman -Syu (~100s of packages) Manjaro (with Cinnamon) becomes very slow and unresponsive. Although the CPU usage seems to stay below 10% (probably just saturating one core) the GUI occasionally becomes very stuttery and unresponsive for 5-30 secs. Even keyboard commands are processed after a several-second delay. This seems to depend on package being updated, since whenever the stuttering happens, it often stops as soon as the package finished updating.
I've tried switching the terminal process to Very Low priority but that hasn't improved the situation. I suspect that in any case the problem is the number of files in the package, so I don't think priority would necessarily be useful.
Besides going through the pacman log and hoping to find a useful error message, is there a way of diagnosing and troubleshooting the problem? At this point all I know is that updating causes massive lag, but I have no idea what to search for or where to look for more details. Alternatively, is this a known issue with an easy solution?
pacman
pacman
edited 1 hour ago
Rui F Ribeiro
41.5k1483140
asked 1 hour ago
BagalawBagalaw
2091314
edited 1 hour ago
Rui F Ribeiro
41.5k1483140
asked 1 hour ago
BagalawBagalaw
2091314
edited 1 hour ago
Rui F Ribeiro
41.5k1483140
edited 1 hour ago
Rui F Ribeiro
41.5k1483140
edited 1 hour ago
Rui F Ribeiro
41.5k1483140
41.5k1483140
asked 1 hour ago
BagalawBagalaw
2091314
asked 1 hour ago
BagalawBagalaw
2091314
asked 1 hour ago
BagalawBagalaw
2091314
2091314
Your setup rig and what it is doing is not described here, it is not possible to say something meaningful
– Rui F Ribeiro
1 hour ago
add a comment |
Your setup rig and what it is doing is not described here, it is not possible to say something meaningful
– Rui F Ribeiro
1 hour ago
Your setup rig and what it is doing is not described here, it is not possible to say something meaningful
– Rui F Ribeiro
1 hour ago
Your setup rig and what it is doing is not described here, it is not possible to say something meaningful
– Rui F Ribeiro
1 hour ago
add a comment |
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Your setup rig and what it is doing is not described here, it is not possible to say something meaningful
– Rui F Ribeiro
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