System stuttering, heavy lag. Freezes upon restart on load

Issues & Assistance Newbies
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Hey guys, a bit new to linux and Arch in general but have some experience with Debian based systems. Everything was running smoothly on my system for about 2 days, updated some packages and whatnot and a day later I had a nap with a stream running and the system was laggy mouse barely moved, audio still played but couldn't navigate it was so bad. So I hard rebooted and everything starts out fine, but as the loading bar on the screen nears 100% the dragon stops animation and everything freezes. I tried restarting and running a memory test also tried to open with other options in advanced and same story...

Aside from plugging in the flash and running terminal what would I be looking for as to what went wrong or why it was/is acting that way??? It's mind boggling because everything was running so smoothly after I set up everything.

Thanks

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Why do you not post your inxi?
You do not read the template?

Again, read

please
and post terminal in- and output from

inxi -Fza

as text!

Even if you personally think it is unnecessary.

and
:slight_smile:

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not sure how to do that when the whole system freezes up, as I said, I’m new but I’m certain pressing anything isn’t doing anything with the system.

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Try booting into / restoring a snapshot taken before your latest update and provide the information please.

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Sorry guys, Forgive my ignorance, I thought I had tried all previous images. One of them worked. There is the information:

Kernel: 5.13.4-zen2-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0  
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-07-24_19-00-02/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen  
root=UUID=6e068ae4-252a-4678-a46c-8bc955e31d59 quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3
vt.global_cursor_default=0 systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1
resume=UUID=1be79113-bac2-40b6-88bd-a7a1a209294c loglevel=3
rootflags=defaults,noatime,space_cache,autodefrag,compress=zstd,ssd,subvol=timeshift-btrfs/snapshot
s/2021-07-24_19-00-02/@
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.3 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM  
Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux  
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: X470 Gaming K4 serial: <filter>  
UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends v: P1.00 date: 03/27/2018  
CPU:       Info: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ family: 17 (23)  
model-id: 8 stepping: 2 microcode: 800820D cache: L2: 4 MiB  
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 102196  
Speed: 2421 MHz min/max: 1550/3200 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2421 2: 2585  
3: 3025 4: 2467 5: 2402 6: 2403 7: 3947 8: 2642 9: 2409 10: 2402 11: 2405 12: 2407 13: 2407  
14: 2409 15: 2409 16: 2904  
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected  
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: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling  
Type: srbds status: Not affected  
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected  
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nvidia v: 470.57.02  
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 26:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1c03 class-ID: 0300  
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.12 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: nvidia display-ID: :0  
screens: 1  
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 92 s-size: 530x301mm (20.9x11.9") s-diag: 610mm (24")  
Monitor-1: DVI-D-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 92 size: 531x298mm (20.9x11.7") diag: 609mm (24")  
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.57.02  
direct render: Yes  
Audio:     Device-1: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio vendor: eVga.com. driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel  
bus-ID: 26:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f1 class-ID: 0403  
Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel  
bus-ID: 28:00.3 chip-ID: 1022:1457 class-ID: 0403  
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.4-zen2-1-zen running: yes  
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no  
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes  
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.32 running: no  
Network:   Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: ASRock driver: igb v: kernel port: f000  
bus-ID: 1f:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:1539 class-ID: 0200  
IF: enp31s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>  
IF-ID-1: anbox0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 2.04 TiB used: 25.52 GiB (1.2%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37240G size: 223.57 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 71B1 scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM006-2DM164 size: 1.82 TiB
block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200
serial: <filter> rev: CC26 scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 206.38 GiB size: 206.38 GiB (100.00%) used: 25.52 GiB (12.4%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
ID-2: /home raw-size: 206.38 GiB size: 206.38 GiB (100.00%) used: 25.52 GiB (12.4%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
ID-3: /var/log raw-size: 206.38 GiB size: 206.38 GiB (100.00%) used: 25.52 GiB (12.4%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
ID-4: /var/tmp raw-size: 206.38 GiB size: 206.38 GiB (100.00%) used: 25.52 GiB (12.4%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 17.19 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda2
maj-min: 8:2
ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 15.56 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 32.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 52 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 7%
Info:      Processes: 360 Uptime: 1m wakeups: 0 Memory: 15.56 GiB used: 1.72 GiB (11.1%) Init: systemd
v: 249 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1620 lib: 489 Shell: fish
v: 3.3.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.06

If you include terminal outputs in your post please use the proper output format in your post. Using "~" 3 times above and "~" 3 times below the text block will provide a readable, raw look.

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now currently restarted after using timeshift to recover an old image and I don't have permission to open certain programs

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Please open terminal and start the certain programs in terminal and post in and output from terminal as text, please.

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Can you please post the output of

sudo btrfs filesystem usage /

sysctl vm.swappiness

sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure

You would also need to monitor your system temps when you experience stutter because higher temps could de-crease performance.

VFS cache and Swappiness - FAQ and Tutorials - Garuda Linux Forum

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Why "sudo" for sysctl?

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I apologize i am getting careless.

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