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kjmeagher

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Registered: 2015-10-20

Posts: 9

[Solved] Audacious and other applications lagging heavily after update

About two or three weeks ago (Some time in September) I performed an update to my system. Since then audacious has been doing some very laggy behavior. When I start it up nothing happens for about 30 seconds and then it starts up normally. Similarly it while playing songs the interface will randomly cut out, the music keeps going but the window is completely unresponsive: the window doesn't draw and all clicks on the window are ignored. But then it returns to normal operation after 30-60 seconds.

I have noticed a few other programs doing similar behavior (becoming unresponsive for about 30-60 seconds) slack, thunderbird, oprea. But most other programs seem to be unaffected. I tried looking for recent problems with audacious on arch but couldn't find anything.

I am running XFCE with nvidia proprietary drivers.

Last edited by kjmeagher (2018-10-01 13:14:27)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,246

Re: [Solved] Audacious and other applications lagging heavily after update

What's the output of

hostnamectl
loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID

kjmeagher

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Registered: 2015-10-20

Posts: 9

Re: [Solved] Audacious and other applications lagging heavily after update

kjm ~ $ hostnamectl
   Static hostname: black
         Icon name: computer-desktop
           Chassis: desktop
        Machine ID: 4396cbbe65c24701b6d7c30236bddc89
           Boot ID: 549f57f32d604c48a83758a8361844dc
  Operating System: Arch Linux
            Kernel: Linux 4.18.10-arch1-1-ARCH
      Architecture: x86-64
kjm ~ $ loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID
Id=2
User=1000
Name=kjm
Timestamp=Sun 2018-09-30 17:37:07 CDT
TimestampMonotonic=27221021
VTNr=1
Seat=seat0
Display=:0
Remote=no
Service=sddm
Desktop=XFCE
Scope=session-2.scope
Leader=554
Audit=2
Type=x11
Class=user
Active=yes
State=active
IdleHint=no
IdleSinceHint=0
IdleSinceHintMonotonic=0
LockedHint=no

V1del

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Re: [Solved] Audacious and other applications lagging heavily after update

Looks okay,  terminal output from an affected application? And

journalctl -b

from an affected session after reproducing the issue? Some power saving? Is it only on attempted sound output creations?

Last edited by V1del (2018-10-01 12:15:15)

kjmeagher

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Registered: 2015-10-20

Posts: 9

Re: [Solved] Audacious and other applications lagging heavily after update

I don't think sound is the issue because to my knowledge Thunderbird doesn't use sound. journalctl -b is filled with this message:

Oct 01 07:44:29 black plasma_waitforname[1788]: org.kde.knotifications: WaitForName: Service was not registered within timeout
Oct 01 07:44:29 black dbus-daemon[573]: [session uid=1000 pid=573] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.Notifications' failed: Process org.freedesktop.Notifications exited>
Oct 01 07:46:03 black dbus-daemon[573]: [session uid=1000 pid=573] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' requested by ':1.32' (uid=1000 pid=717 comm="a>
Oct 01 07:47:03 black plasma_waitforname[1799]: org.kde.knotifications: WaitForName: Service was not registered within timeout
Oct 01 07:47:03 black dbus-daemon[573]: [session uid=1000 pid=573] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.Notifications' failed: Process org.freedesktop.Notifications exited>
Oct 01 07:50:40 black dbus-daemon[573]: [session uid=1000 pid=573] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' requested by ':1.32' (uid=1000 pid=717 comm="a>
Oct 01 07:51:41 black plasma_waitforname[1828]: org.kde.knotifications: WaitForName: Service was not registered within timeout

But it looks like libnotify is the culprit, something that audacious, thunderbird and opera all have in common. I turned off notification on audacious and it works fine. I keep forgetting to check journalctl for these kinds of issues. Thanks a bunch, V1del!