slow filesystem

Matt3o · 2014-09-27 07:28:53

I'm experimenting a general tardiness in my PC when it comes to access to the filesystem.

I'm on gnome and when opening folders in nautilus sometimes the files take 4-5 seconds before showing up. The same happens from terminal, ln is extremely slow sometimes.

I'm saying "sometimes" because it doesn't seem to be systematic. Some days is just fine, others it's simply slow. It depends on how the PC wakes up from sleep (it is a bit moody ).

I'm on a pretty pumped machine (i7) with SSD and one HDD for big files (ext4), I checked drives for integrity and also tried the system on another OS (ahem) and everything seems fine.

Do you have any suggestion?

graysky · 2014-09-27 08:59:37

Any error in dmesg?

Matt3o · 2014-09-27 10:29:29

dmesg is pretty clear apart from sporadic errors with the USB3 front panel ports (it always did that, errors go away if I set the ports to usb2)

[93549.780052] usb 1-3: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[93549.780068] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Setup ERROR: setup context command for slot 1.
[93549.780068] usb 1-3: hub failed to enable device, error -22
[93549.939757] usb 1-3: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[93549.939806] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Setup ERROR: setup context command for slot 1.
[93549.939807] usb 1-3: hub failed to enable device, error -22
[93550.099614] usb 1-3: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[93550.115540] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep ffff88040691aea0

mbklr · 2014-09-27 18:41:20

Maybe something else is happening on your system which makes it appear slow. Maybe checking your I/O activity is worth a try. Have

iostat 1

running in a terminal all the time and when your system is slow look at it to determine if your're facing exceptional I/O loads in that particular moment.

Matt3o · 2014-09-27 21:58:55

Usually when it is slow it is slow all day long. Basically from wake from sleep to suspend. Sometimes I wake it up and it's just slow (but only the FS seems slow everything else is fine). It's like something is happening in the wake up phase, but I don't really know where to look at. I can't see any error.

Arch Linux

#1 2014-09-27 07:28:53

slow filesystem

#2 2014-09-27 08:59:37

Re: slow filesystem

#3 2014-09-27 10:29:29

Re: slow filesystem

#4 2014-09-27 18:41:20

Re: slow filesystem

#5 2014-09-27 21:58:55

Re: slow filesystem

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