Frequent lags or freezes every few seconds on fresh system

mesayah · 2018-03-28 09:07:11

Hello. I've decided to try Arch Linux, so I followed Wiki on installation guide and managed to install the system. Then I went to General recommendations page and followed guides to install Network Manager and Desktop Environment. I choose GNOME, installed it, set GDM display manager and rebooted. After logging in I noticed short lags or freezes every few seconds. I installed Intel drivers (I have Intel graphic card), Wayland display server, but the problem still occurs.

Edit: the same issue occurs when using touchpad, so It's not the mouse itself
Edit 2: when playing sounds in background it doesn't loop od distort when a freeze occurs

Last edited by mesayah (2018-03-28 10:35:05)

seth · 2018-03-28 13:56:06

I noticed short lags or freezes every few seconds

same issue occurs when using touchpad, so It's not the mouse

?
You might want to elaborate on the nature of the "freezes".

V1del · 2018-03-28 14:04:22

Are the freezes connected to an audio event? (Playback, a notification chime etc.)

Edit: Oh just saw the edit, if it happens during already playing audio that might not be it, but rule it out in any case.

Last edited by V1del (2018-03-28 15:37:27)

Kimonas · 2018-03-28 15:07:10

I'm also using gnome and after the big update to 3.28 I've also noticed freezes. For me when it was freezing if I was pressing a key then that key would be pressed many times. Another user posted something similar. According to a link there the issue seems to be with the mesa package, which was also flagged as out of date yesterday. If that's the case you could try to downgrade as they suggested but it didn't work out for me, so i'd suggest to just wait for version 18.0

mesayah · 2018-03-28 21:00:51

The nature of the freezes...
Okay, so as I said they happen rather randomly, but frequent, like every 5-10 seconds and last for around 1-2 seconds. When I type something and the freeze occurs I often end with the character being typed multiplied many times like:
"hello wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorld" - when freeze occurred on "o" character.
On freeze sounds in the background are still playing (tested on Spotify), but a mouse, keyboard and video freezes (tested on YouTube, the video is frozen but sounds from that video still play).
Tested with other mouse and touchpad and the problem still occur.

I will try installing KDE tomorrow and see if it's desktop environment related problem.

R00KIE · 2018-03-28 21:13:33

We don't know anything about your hardware and the drivers you may be using. Please post the full output of dmesg as it might contain clues and also the output of 'lspci -nnk'.

seth · 2018-03-28 21:21:55

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=235723
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=235679

Given the recent threadstorm, my money is on gnome ...

mesayah · 2018-03-29 12:43:40

The problem doesn't occur when using KDE.

I will wait for next GNOME update then...

R00KIE · 2018-03-29 13:13:09

There was one user complaining about slowdowns and it turned out it was a problem with power management of the radeon driver[1], but since we don't have either dmesg output or lspci output we can only play guessing games and 20 questions games.

[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=235709

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#1 2018-03-28 09:07:11

Frequent lags or freezes every few seconds on fresh system

#2 2018-03-28 13:56:06

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#4 2018-03-28 15:07:10

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#5 2018-03-28 21:00:51

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