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Sandeman

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Registered: 2016-04-16

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Linux 4.5 upgrade made laptop extremely slow

Hello, I'm pretty new to Arch (swiched over from Ubuntu a few weeks ago).

When I upgraded my older laptop (i686) today it got extremely slow, as in more or less unusable. For what I noticed xorg and conky where consuming a lot of CPU resources.
As a first step I downgraded back to Linux 4.4.5-1 and everything is fine again.

i have no idea what the issue is, butt for now i have Linux 4.5 on my pacman ignore list.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: Linux 4.5 upgrade made laptop extremely slow

Try the lts kernel (linux-lts).

WorMzy

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Re: Linux 4.5 upgrade made laptop extremely slow

i have no idea what the issue is

Neither do we, because you've given us nothing to work with..

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … ow_to_post
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

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ms

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Re: Linux 4.5 upgrade made laptop extremely slow

Hello, I'm pretty new to Arch (swiched over from Ubuntu a few weeks ago).

When I upgraded my older laptop (i686) today it got extremely slow, as in more or less unusable. For what I noticed xorg and conky where consuming a lot of CPU resources.
As a first step I downgraded back to Linux 4.4.5-1 and everything is fine again.

i have no idea what the issue is, butt for now i have Linux 4.5 on my pacman ignore list.

Check your video driver. If you use proprietary driver, try using the open source one, or vice versa.