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Looking at the kernel logs to see if there is something wrong with my machine

My ubuntu machine slowed down, I was following these instructions: https://askubuntu.com/questions/21632/slow-response-and-system-lag the slowness I see is pretty uniform, and there's definitely a lot of delay when I click or type. sometimes I type…
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Slow boot because of plymouth-quit-wait.service

I am using PopOS as my OS I noticed that it takes too long to boot-up the reason might be because I use a HDD but, when I was using ubuntu the boot time was faster So, I checked the boot time with systemd-analyze command this was the result: Startup…
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Listing directory takes forever on a folder that used to have millions of files

The filesystem is ext4, the machine hasn't been rebooted in years and we don't want to do that now either. We used to have a folder with millions of small (2-3kb of size) files. This almost broke the system so we fixed the code that was generating…
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Lenovo T14 Gen1 CPU stuck at low frequency randomly in Linux

After installing Fedora 33 (also tried kubuntu and ubuntu 20.04) on my laptop, I have the problem that after some time, the CPU randomly gets stuck at low frequency (400MHz-800Mhz) and doesn't step up resulting in very slow response times. cpupower…
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How a 95% full /home partition slows down processes?

I experienced a slowdown of some processes on my CentOS box. They did not use too much cpu cycles according to top. The only thing I have seen unusual was that my /home partition was 95% full. Could this cause the slowdown of my processes? How?
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Why does `less` consume so much CPU with a reasonably sized file, fast disk and plenty of memory?

There seems to be a pathological case with one of the files I'm reading with less. The file is ~300MB in size, disk is fast (local NMVE) and the file can comfortably fit in memory, there is no swapping or anything like that. less --version gives…
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What could cause slow binfmt-support.service during boot?

I have a Fujitsu LifeBook with Lubuntu 18.04.2 which is booting very slow. Here's the output from systemd-analyze blame | head -n20 28.869s systemd-journal-flush.service 24.957s dev-sda1.device 14.620s apparmor.service 14.558s…
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A “systemic” slowdown - from firefox to other apps

The problem I'm describing has followed me from Mint 18.3 to Devuan ASCII (~= Debian Stretch), so it is likely not super-specific to a distribution. My typical desktop session has an IDE, two browsers (FF and Chromium), Libreoffice, a terminal…
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Ubuntu becomes slow after huge file move during Deep learning

I'm using Ubuntu 22.04. While I'm moving huge dataset (over 200GB) from SSD to HDD, my PC becomes slow after around 1 hours later. At the same time I'm executing Deep learning program(it becomes stop after same hour). I checked CPU, RAM and IO but…
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If I install a firmware file My debain os geting very slow

I installed this firmware-realtek frimware file in my debian os for my wifi driver. If I uninstall this firmware-realtek . then my pc works very fast. If I install firmware-realtek again my pc works very slowly. sudo apt-get install…
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EndeavourOS (Linux distro) is quite laggy

I have a laptop with EndeavourOS on it. It has a Core i3-4405U (4) 1,6Ghz, and it's sometimes lagging, e.g. if I start a program like Firefox or a game like Minecraft. It just starts lagging so much that even the mouse is lagging, and nothing works…
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Why does mouse and cursor movement become erratic when I copy an entire memory stick to another stick?

I copied a 16 GB USB memory stick to another 16 GB stick (cloned it), by using the following command: cp /dev/sdb /dev/sdd It took about 27 minutes, and the cloning works. But during the entire copy process, the mouse and cursor movement become…
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High RAM and swap usage out of seemingly nowhere

(Manjaro 20, Linux 5.8.3, KDE, this laptop) When reasonably much is going on in my system, the RAM and swap usage often goes much higher than it should. For example currently I have a VM with a VM in it running and two instances of Minecraft, also…
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Bash Prompt takes a lot of time at the end of .bashrc

At the very end of .bashrc I do echo "The END". But even after this statement gets printed, there is a huge delay sometimes more than 5 seconds, to get the PS1 prompt. How can I diagnose this? Any suggestions? Tried Solutions I did bash -x. The…
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How to remove, delete, or uninstall ALL the installed software?

I would like to remove or delete or uninstall ALL the installed apps or applications or programs or softwares from Linux... My computer is slowing down because I have installed a lot of useless softwares and it would take a lot of time to remove…
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