Hey, I am fairly new to Linux.
I recently started using Grauda i3wm.
Firefox, Telegram and XFCE4 terminals work super fast as expected.
But certain applications like Chrome, Discord, VSCode and Alacritty are extremely laggy for me to a point where they're unusable.
How do I fix the lag?
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System: Kernel: 5.10.11-zen2-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen root=UUID=246ea4ba-7ce8-476b-baae-a42ee30583fb rw
rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 loglevel=3
Desktop: i3 4.19.1 info: i3bar dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Garuda Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: TUF Gaming FX505GD_FX505GD v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: FX505GD v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: FX505GD.307 date: 05/25/2020
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 39.3 Wh condition: 39.3/48.1 Wh (82%) volts: 12.7/11.7 model: Simplo SDI ICR18650 type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: Full cycles: 41
CPU: Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8300H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6
model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10) microcode: DE L2 cache: 8 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 36799
Speed: 3998 MHz min/max: 800/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3998 2: 3939 3: 4000 4: 3986 5: 3999 6: 3915 7: 3990
8: 3987
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3e9b
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 460.39
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c8d
Device-3: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-11:5 chip ID: 13d3:56a2
serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: picom v: git-dac85 driver: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
alternate: fbdev,intel,nouveau,nv,vesa display ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: HDMI-1-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 94 size: 521x293mm (20.5x11.5") diag: 598mm (23.5")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.4 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASUSTeK driver: sof-audio-pci
alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a348
Device-2: Samson GoMic compact condenser mic type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 1-1:7
chip ID: 17a0:0305
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.11-zen2-1-zen
Network: Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 [Jefferson Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 5000 bus ID: 00:14.3
chip ID: 8086:a370
IF: wlo1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000
bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
RAID: Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: 5060 bus ID: 00:17.0
chip ID: 8086.282a rev: 10
Drives: Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 14.67 GiB (1.6%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LX015-1U7172 size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: SDM1
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 67.78 GiB size: 67.78 GiB (100.00%) used: 14.67 GiB (21.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 590 MiB size: 588.8 MiB (99.80%) used: 560 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda4
maj-min: 8:4
ID-3: /home raw size: 67.78 GiB size: 67.78 GiB (100.00%) used: 14.67 GiB (21.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda5
maj-min: 8:5
ID-4: /var/log raw size: 67.78 GiB size: 67.78 GiB (100.00%) used: 14.67 GiB (21.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda5
maj-min: 8:5
ID-5: /var/tmp raw size: 67.78 GiB size: 67.78 GiB (100.00%) used: 14.67 GiB (21.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda5
maj-min: 8:5
Swap: Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache pressure: 75 (default 100)
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 975.6 MiB used: 256 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram0
ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 975.6 MiB used: 256 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram1
ID-3: swap-3 type: zram size: 975.6 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram2
ID-4: swap-4 type: zram size: 975.6 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram3
ID-5: swap-5 type: zram size: 975.6 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram4
ID-6: swap-6 type: zram size: 975.6 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram5
ID-7: swap-7 type: zram size: 975.6 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram6
ID-8: swap-8 type: zram size: 975.6 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram7
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 60.0 C mobo: 27.8 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info: Processes: 290 Uptime: 55m wakeups: 1 Memory: 7.62 GiB used: 3.54 GiB (46.5%) Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers:
gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 1247 lib: 319 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.2.02
I think all the GPU Accelerated programs are slow. Possible Nvidia driver issue?
Laptop I do not know, less RAM, Intel/Nvidia seems special. Maybe other can help.
Please use forum search, too.
I update today to kernel 5.10.12, there other changes too.
Yes.
Search for errors.
I had the same issue is definitely Nvidia driver issue. And it makes sense since alacritty is a GPU based terminal. Try opening alacritty from another terminal (just type alacritty). There you can find any errors
that show up.
Just go into the settings and add the right driver for you:
