System slow to crawl after last update

Fixed · 2011-04-26 16:34:31

Hi there,

After today's update system is very slow to response.

It starts during boot time, when it freeze at network. Then when I start xfce4, it takes very long time to load.

At shell every command, even "ls" it takes seconds to execute.

What is interesting, double hitting "Enter helps to accellerate it.

I am running Arch64

Please help

Last edited by Fixed (2011-05-06 10:08:20)

karol · 2011-04-26 18:34:07

What is the bottleneck: cpu, io ...? Start by running htop and see if your cpu isn't maxed out. If it is, check which apps use it the most.

Fixed · 2011-04-26 19:41:33

CPU load is 2-5%.

For example, I enter command "pwd", "Enter" and shell is frozen.

Then in 10 sec I hit "Ctrl" button, and it unfreezes.

Fixed · 2011-04-27 18:43:29

I just downgraded kernel to 26-2.6.38.3 and system started to function normally.

I am using Arch for 10 years and still keep my finger crossed upgrading the system.

Life shouldn't be that cruel.

fphillips · 2011-05-04 21:56:22

This should be fixed in upcoming 2.6.38.6.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23937

Fixed · 2011-05-06 10:07:48

fphillips -- thank you for information.

Still I am thinking that there is something conceptually wrong with that fast rate of kernel upgrades.

Improvements shouldn't make the system unusable.

I am personally very disappointed with ArchLinux after 10 years of intensive usage. My personal feeling is like living in the house in the process of permanent rebuilding, including major parts of the construction. There is no convergence -- like you have something working with countable bugs, and their amount is diminishing in time.

You are making the next upgrade, and BOOM ... -- your system is not accessible, or you are having major screw-up.

And this is happening on the level of CORE repository.

Something is fundamentally wrong ...

I am un-marking the thread as [SOLVED].

Last edited by Fixed (2011-05-06 10:10:07)

jelly · 2011-05-06 12:05:30

Fixed wrote:

fphillips -- thank you for information.
Still I am thinking that there is something conceptually wrong with that fast rate of kernel upgrades.
Improvements shouldn't make the system unusable.
I am personally very disappointed with ArchLinux after 10 years of intensive usage. My personal feeling is like living in the house in the process of permanent rebuilding, including major parts of the construction. There is no convergence -- like you have something working with countable bugs, and their amount is diminishing in time.
You are making the next upgrade, and BOOM ... -- your system is not accessible, or you are having major screw-up.
And this is happening on the level of CORE repository.
Something is fundamentally wrong ...
I am un-marking the thread as [SOLVED].

Well if you're not happy, start improving archlinux then with helping out on the bug tracker.........

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#1 2011-04-26 16:34:31

System slow to crawl after last update

#2 2011-04-26 18:34:07

Re: System slow to crawl after last update

#3 2011-04-26 19:41:33

Re: System slow to crawl after last update

#4 2011-04-27 18:43:29

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#5 2011-05-04 21:56:22

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#6 2011-05-06 10:07:48

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#7 2011-05-06 12:05:30

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