Hello i use garuda linux for gaming and i love it!!, i came from pop os.
I have started to notice strange issues with garuda.
All games take a very long time to load, is this because of btrfs?
Because when i was running pop os my games loaded so much faster.
Pop OS Loading Times
Cyberpunk 2077 = 5 seconds
Red Dead Redemption 2 = 5 seconds
Garuda Loading Times
Cyberpunk 2077 = 30+ seconds
Red Dead Redemption 2 = 30+ seconds
Now the only change from pop os to garuda is Btrfs > Ext4
Interested to hear peoples thoughts on this matter.
I/O performance depends on many things: HDD vs SSD, SATA vs NVME, file systems, etc.
Please post the output of inxi -Fxxxza as always 
You may want to check out the relevant benchmarks post like this one from Phoronix.
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My computer stays the same, all i did was swap from pop os to garuda linux
❯ inxi -Fxxxza
System:
Kernel: 5.10.1-103-tkg-pds x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: intel_pstate=passive BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-tkg-pds
root=UUID=1ffdc7fa-3b86-4cd6-b70e-b96c9861911a rw [email protected] quiet
splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 loglevel=3
Desktop: GNOME 3.38.2 tk: GTK 3.24.24 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 3.38.2.1
Distro: Garuda Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MPG Z390 GAMING EDGE AC (MS-7B17)
v: 2.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: A.70 date: 01/02/2020
CPU:
Info: 8-Core model: Intel Core i9-9900K bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: D (13)
microcode: DE L2 cache: 16 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 115312
Speed: 2909 MHz min/max: 800/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2909 2: 3601
3: 3278 4: 3600 5: 3596 6: 3600 7: 3133 8: 3600 9: 2577 10: 2923 11: 3600
12: 3493 13: 2964 14: 3600 15: 3297 16: 3595
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
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: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: TSX disabled
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: nvidia v: 455.46.04 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 01:00.0
chip ID: 10de:1f06
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: gnome-shell driver: nvidia
display ID: :1 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3440x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 910x381mm (35.8x15.0")
s-diag: 987mm (38.8")
Monitor-1: DP-0 res: 3440x1440 dpi: 109 size: 800x330mm (31.5x13.0")
diag: 865mm (34.1")
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 455.46.04 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci
bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a348
Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:10f9
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.1-103-tkg-pds
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 [Jefferson Peak] driver: iwlwifi
v: kernel bus ID: 00:14.3 chip ID: 8086:a370
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: e1000e
v: kernel port: efa0 bus ID: 00:1f.6 chip ID: 8086:15bc
IF: eno2 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: wg-mullvad state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 6.92 TiB used: 1.86 TiB (26.9%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WDS100T3XHC-00SJG0 size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 102000WD
temp: 44.9 C
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Zotac model: ZTSSD-A5P-480G-PE
size: 447.13 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 01.6
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD6003FZBX-00K5WB0 size: 5.46 TiB block size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 1A01
ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: Samsung model: Flash Drive
size: 119.51 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B
serial: <filter> rev: 1100
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: 931.22 GiB size: 931.22 GiB (100.00%)
used: 540.44 GiB (58.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 560 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw size: 931.22 GiB size: 931.22 GiB (100.00%)
used: 540.44 GiB (58.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-4: /var/log raw size: 931.22 GiB size: 931.22 GiB (100.00%)
used: 540.44 GiB (58.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-5: /var/tmp raw size: 931.22 GiB size: 931.22 GiB (100.00%)
used: 540.44 GiB (58.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache pressure: 75 (default 100)
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 3.92 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
dev: /dev/zram0
ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 3.92 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
dev: /dev/zram1
ID-3: swap-3 type: zram size: 3.92 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
dev: /dev/zram2
ID-4: swap-4 type: zram size: 3.92 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
dev: /dev/zram3
ID-5: swap-5 type: zram size: 3.92 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
dev: /dev/zram4
ID-6: swap-6 type: zram size: 3.92 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
dev: /dev/zram5
ID-7: swap-7 type: zram size: 3.92 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
dev: /dev/zram6
ID-8: swap-8 type: zram size: 3.92 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
dev: /dev/zram7
ID-9: swap-9 type: zram size: 3.92 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
dev: /dev/zram8
ID-10: swap-10 type: zram size: 3.92 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.0%)
priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram9
ID-11: swap-11 type: zram size: 3.92 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.0%)
priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram10
ID-12: swap-12 type: zram size: 3.92 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.0%)
priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram11
ID-13: swap-13 type: zram size: 3.92 GiB used: 1.8 MiB (0.0%)
priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram12
ID-14: swap-14 type: zram size: 3.92 GiB used: 1.8 MiB (0.0%)
priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram13
ID-15: swap-15 type: zram size: 3.92 GiB used: 1.8 MiB (0.0%)
priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram14
ID-16: swap-16 type: zram size: 3.92 GiB used: 1.8 MiB (0.0%)
priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram15
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 59.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 43 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 25%
Info:
Processes: 454 Uptime: 12h 55m wakeups: 0 Memory: 62.75 GiB
used: 11.27 GiB (18.0%) Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0
Packages: pacman: 1306 lib: 396 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8
running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.2.00
Thanks for that info i can see it says
"Btrfs with its copy-on-write behavior leads to it having a lot of features but at least in its out-of-the-box behavior generally being a fair amount slower than EXT4/F2FS/XFS. "
So now i understand why its slow sometimes, but its ok i will deal with this because garuda and btrfs with timeshift is amazing! 
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Afaik you can turn that off for files.
Might be worth creating a ext4 partition to hold games maybe? Also keep in mind btrfs does compression via zstd which be another reason 
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Yes this seems to be the best solution thank you
