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I'm getting intermittent slow downs on my laptop (an HP Laptop 15-dyxxx with an I5-135U), and I'm not quite sure what causes it. I'm not seeing any performance spikes or RAM limitations. It only lasts for a minute at most and most programs (and Hyprland, with the exception of closing windows) continue to run fine, but running programs immediately halts and I get these symptoms:
Logging in is entirely halted. After entering my password, I have to wait for the slow down to end. This occurs with sudo, launching new terminal windows, and TTY/LightDM login.
Certain, but not all, applications crash or freeze. Btop experiences no issues (as long as it's already open), but Halo: MCC crashes during it.
Programs take ages to start, and they often all launch at the same time after slowness ends. A notable exception to this is ls, which runs slower but still a windows of 5 seconds.
This has been happening for quite a while, and even happened the same amount before I had a LUKS/LVM setup.
To reproduce it, I just have to run a lot of things. Opening a game, YouTube, another browser window, Btop, Top, neofetch, and a couple more empty kitty windows tends to be enough (no matter which workspace they're one).
The most recent time this happened was 21:28 today, just before Halo crashed. Checking journalctl -b 0, I get the following when I experienced the slowdown:
Dec 13 21:26:49 pikachu tailscaled[640]: control: NetInfo: NetInfo{varies=true ipv6=false ipv6os=true udp=true icmpv4=false derp=#10 portmap= link="" firewallmode="ipt-default"}
Dec 13 21:26:52 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-48 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:26:55 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-49 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:26:58 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-49 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:27:01 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-48 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:27:04 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-48 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:27:07 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-46 noise=9999 txrate=172000
Dec 13 21:27:09 pikachu rtkit-daemon[870]: Supervising 11 threads of 7 processes of 1 users.
Dec 13 21:27:09 pikachu rtkit-daemon[870]: Supervising 11 threads of 7 processes of 1 users.
Dec 13 21:27:10 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-45 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:27:13 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-47 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:27:16 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-48 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:27:19 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-49 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:27:22 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-49 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:27:25 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-48 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:27:28 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-49 noise=9999 txrate=258000
Dec 13 21:27:31 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-49 noise=9999 txrate=206500
Dec 13 21:27:34 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-49 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:27:37 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-48 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:27:40 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-45 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:27:43 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-46 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:27:46 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-48 noise=9999 txrate=206500
Dec 13 21:27:49 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-46 noise=9999 txrate=206500
Dec 13 21:27:49 pikachu rtkit-daemon[870]: Supervising 11 threads of 7 processes of 1 users.
Dec 13 21:27:49 pikachu rtkit-daemon[870]: Supervising 11 threads of 7 processes of 1 users.
Dec 13 21:27:52 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-46 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:27:55 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-49 noise=9999 txrate=258000
Dec 13 21:27:58 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-45 noise=9999 txrate=258000
Dec 13 21:28:01 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-48 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:28:01 pikachu systemd-coredump[43652]: Process 40041 (MAIN_THREAD) of user 1000 terminated abnormally with signal 11/SEGV, processing...
Dec 13 21:28:01 pikachu systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 43652/UID 0).
Dec 13 21:28:04 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-46 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:28:05 pikachu systemd[31588]: Started kitty child process: 43763 launched by: 43745.
Dec 13 21:28:07 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-47 noise=9999 txrate=258000
Dec 13 21:28:10 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-46 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:28:13 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-48 noise=9999 txrate=258000
Dec 13 21:28:16 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-47 noise=9999 txrate=258000
Dec 13 21:28:16 pikachu sudo[34976]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Dec 13 21:28:19 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-45 noise=9999 txrate=258000
Dec 13 21:28:22 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-49 noise=9999 txrate=258000
Dec 13 21:28:23 pikachu tailscaled[640]: open-conn-track: timeout opening (TCP 100.222.145.122:34688 => 95.121.183.98:80); no associated peer node
Dec 13 21:28:25 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-49 noise=9999 txrate=258000
Dec 13 21:28:28 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-48 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:28:29 pikachu tailscaled[640]: open-conn-track: timeout opening (TCP 100.222.145.122:34688 => 95.121.183.98:80); no associated peer node
Dec 13 21:28:31 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-47 noise=9999 txrate=258000
Dec 13 21:28:36 pikachu uwsm_hyprland.desktop[31783]: failed to read client connection (pid 43745)
Dec 13 21:28:35 pikachu systemd[31588]: Started kitty child process: 44598 launched by: 44003.
Dec 13 21:28:36 pikachu tailscaled[640]: open-conn-track: timeout opening (TCP 100.222.145.122:34688 => 95.121.183.98:80); no associated peer node
Dec 13 21:28:34 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-45 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:28:37 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-48 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:28:40 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-47 noise=9999 txrate=172000
Dec 13 21:28:43 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-48 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:28:45 pikachu tailscaled[640]: open-conn-track: timeout opening (TCP 100.222.145.122:34688 => 95.121.183.98:80); no associated peer node
Dec 13 21:28:46 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-46 noise=9999 txrate=172000
Dec 13 21:28:49 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-46 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:28:52 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-44 noise=9999 txrate=172000
Dec 13 21:28:55 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-45 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:28:58 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-44 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:29:01 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-46 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:29:02 pikachu systemd[31588]: Started kitty child process: 45301 launched by: 45232.
Dec 13 21:29:11 pikachu systemd[31588]: Started kitty child process: 45560 launched by: 45539.
Dec 13 21:29:04 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-47 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:29:07 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-47 noise=9999 txrate=172000
Dec 13 21:29:10 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-45 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:29:13 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-57 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu systemd-coredump[43653]: Process 40041 (MAIN_THREAD) of user 1000 dumped core.
Stack trace of thread 40074:
#0 0x00007f4b4f545ee0 save_context (/home/vodkaa/games/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton Hotfix/files/lib/wine/x86_64-unix/ntdll.so + 0x49ee0)
#1 0x00007f4b4f549164 segv_handler (/home/vodkaa/games/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton Hotfix/files/lib/wine/x86_64-unix/ntdll.so + 0x4d164)
#2 0x00007f4b4f63e4d0 n/a (/run/host/usr/lib/libc.so.6 + 0x3e4d0)
ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@1-4097-43652_43653-0.service: Deactivated successfully.
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@1-4097-43652_43653-0.service: Consumed 20.592s CPU time, 2.6G memory peak, 1M memory swap peak.
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu steam[31929]: pid 39890 != 39889, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu steam[31929]: Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=976730]
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu steam[31929]: Removing process 40041 for gameID 976730
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu steam[31929]: Removing process 39999 for gameID 976730
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu steam[31929]: Removing process 39970 for gameID 976730
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu steam[31929]: Removing process 39935 for gameID 976730
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu steam[31929]: Removing process 39920 for gameID 976730
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu steam[31929]: Removing process 39915 for gameID 976730
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu steam[31929]: Removing process 39901 for gameID 976730
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu steam[31929]: Removing process 39898 for gameID 976730
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu steam[31929]: Removing process 39896 for gameID 976730
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu steam[31929]: Removing process 39889 for gameID 976730
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu steam[31929]: Removing process 39888 for gameID 976730
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu steam[31929]: Removing process 39887 for gameID 976730
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu steam[31929]: Removing process 39882 for gameID 976730
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu steam[31929]: Removing process 39784 for gameID 976730
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu steam[31929]: Removing process 39783 for gameID 976730
Dec 13 21:29:14 pikachu steam[31929]: Removing process 39782 for gameID 976730
Dec 13 21:29:15 pikachu systemd[31588]: Started app-org.chromium.Chromium-45722.scope.
Dec 13 21:29:16 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-47 noise=9999 txrate=172000
Dec 13 21:29:19 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-47 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:29:20 pikachu systemd[31588]: Started kitty child process: 46094 launched by: 46075.
Dec 13 21:29:22 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-46 noise=9999 txrate=258000
Dec 13 21:29:25 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-50 noise=9999 txrate=258000
Dec 13 21:29:27 pikachu steam[31929]: reaping pid: 40266 -- gameoverlayui
Dec 13 21:29:28 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-47 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:29:29 pikachu systemd[31588]: Started kitty child process: 46396 launched by: 46384.
Dec 13 21:29:31 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-47 noise=9999 txrate=286700
Dec 13 21:29:34 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-47 noise=9999 txrate=229400
Dec 13 21:29:37 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-47 noise=9999 txrate=258000
Dec 13 21:29:39 pikachu rtkit-daemon[870]: Supervising 11 threads of 7 processes of 1 users.
Dec 13 21:29:39 pikachu rtkit-daemon[870]: Supervising 11 threads of 7 processes of 1 users.
Dec 13 21:29:40 pikachu wpa_supplicant[731]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-46 noise=9999 txrate=258000I don't see anything too abnormal in here other than Halo crashing. dmesg shows nothing during the time. I also have my Hyprland log for another time when this happened, but as far as I'm aware it doesn't have anything out of the ordinary either. A copy of it is here anyways. I'm not at all sure what could cause this or if that's just the limit of my computer but I'd expect it not to fail to run anything and instead just run things rather slowly, like it does while compiling or playing intensive games. If any other information could be helpful, please let me know and I'll provide it.
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