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Half-Shot

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From: Chelmsford, Essex, UK

Registered: 2013-10-19

Posts: 18

[SOLVED]Kernel, GDM and Gnome are very slow.

EDIT: My bad, linux-mainline was updated in the morn and somehow seemed to cause huge slowdowns, make catalyst very angry and annoy the s*** out of udev . If anyone else gets this issue then make sure your running the stock kernel, and not be as dumb as me.

I'm going to give as much info as I can, if I miss anything please just ask.

Since a reboot this morning, the system is REALLY slow. I have a:
  * SSD which the root lies on.
  * A 7200RPM drive for home.
  * A 5400RPM drive for backups, and virtual drives.
None of these are close to being full.

Nothing new has been put on my system, at least not anything that could cause such widespread problems.
No settings have been modified in GDM or Gnome and all i really did before the issues was launch steam and then restart to have these issues.
I also noticed that in the dmesg log there was quite a lot of problems with catalyst (no suprise there) but I can't decipher them .
Should probably point out that I have both the mainline kernel (AUR) and the arch standard one installed but i have booted from both to much the same effect.
I also used tty2 to launch openbox and it ran as fast as openbox usually does so its a really odd problem since afaik gnome hasn't been updated recently.

Symptoms of slowness:
* GDM takes a while to start 3minutes+
* Cursor isn't visible in GDM for at least 5minutes after the screen draws itself.
* Upon logging in (another 2minutes+) the cursor and nautilus don't load for 3 minutes.
* The network applet in the right corner of gnome isn't visible despite NetworkManager running in the background (probably timed out)

Just to say that most applications are still functional and of resonable speed

Logs:
Pacman
Dmesg
Xorg
SystemSpecs

Last edited by Half-Shot (2014-02-08 20:00:03)