Very slow Omarchy with weird errors

[eugenialoli]

System details

intel dell laptops

What's wrong?

I installed 3.0.2 and did the updates. Rebooted. But the migration didn't go well. The app menu couldn't find elephant etc. But the most weird thing was the slowness. Very slow to do anything other than opening a terminal. For example, kdenlive and chromium were taking ages to load (the system was asking me to terminate or wait), and when loading they would be very slow to open a menu or a website. My network was fine, but somehow the system was very slow. Google said that my browser was suspicious!!
CPU and mem were fine too, I don't know about i/o though.

Please note that omarchy was installed on a rather slow medium, but that shouldn't be a problem. Other distros I've installed there in the past were fine. I used that installation on two different laptops (it's external storage), and the problems remained. I'd be quick to blame btrfs, but I don't know.

[nifipi]

i just updated it too and it's very slow even after reboot.

[defer]

likely related: #2664

[hfvmarques]

The system is very slow overall, I'll follow this.

[eugenialoli]

I've updated to the latest of everything, the slowness remains. Slow to get to the deskop, super slow to load chromium or kdenlive. Everything just crawls. Memory and cpu are not maxed out btw, not by a long shot. No swap is used. Elephant-files is disabled to make the system speedier. Something else is the culprit.

[luchongk]

Experiencing the same issues, hope someone can resolve this

[sk0le]

I'm having the same issues. It's unbearable. It even happened while writing this comment. These are my specifications. Stuff like this never happened on Arch before. I've used Ubuntu, Mint, and also, never happened. Chromium, terminal, it's all lagging.

[Jamesking56]

Can you run btop? Be useful to see what processes are using the most resources to narrow down what the cause might be

[sk0le]

I did a lot of stuff, I can't pinpoint why it has stopped, but it has stopped. @Jamesking56 thanks for asking, but for now it's okay.

[ShamuoonHaider]

i have updated to the recent 3.2 version and i think i way too slower than previous updates i tried rebooting multiple times there is no recovery yet i think i'll reinstall omarchy from start maybe that will fix it

[MaymoonaAlBoloshi]

on my prev install, i used the install script on top of arch and it was like a month a go, blazingly fast.,
Then this time I re-flashed it with the ISO version of Omarchy and it's annoyingly slow - same spec machine, x280 to t480

I'll update the thread if I figure out speeding it up, did not dig into processes yet.

[eugenialoli]

I'll update the thread if I figure out speeding it up, did not dig into processes yet.

Did you use btrfs on your arch->omarchy install, or ext4? The omarchy installer installs btrfs you see, and that might be the culprit.

[MaymoonaAlBoloshi]

I'll update the thread if I figure out speeding it up, did not dig into processes yet.

Did you use btrfs on your arch->omarchy install, or ext4? The omarchy installer installs btrfs you see, and that might be the culprit.

it is indeed using btrfs .. thanks for the tip.. will reinstall it