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ArcaOS Sluggishness

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Roderick Klein:

--- Quote from: christech on October 10, 2023, 07:08:28 pm ---Hey all,

My ArcaOS 5.1 machine has started to get sluggish. Not sure what I can check. For example, opening Drives takes 10 seconds to show the drives, Firefox takes 30 seconds to open.. etc.

Machine is a Dell Precision T3610:

4 Core XEON E5-1603 @ 2.80 Ghz
4 GB RAM
500GB 7200 RPM Mechanical Drive in AHCI mode

I turned off all Virtualization in BIOS.

I don't know what to look for, or where to start. Any help is appreciated.

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This sudden issue indeed sounds like a hard drive ready to kick the can!
You do not need to turn off virtualisation. If your BIOS has a setting for hyperthreading turn that off.
But again the fact  it starts to get sluggish all of a sudden is bad sign,,,


Roderick

Dave Yeo:

--- Quote from: christech on October 10, 2023, 11:31:45 pm ---It's clean in there. I cleaned it out 3 months ago. I did a full diagnostic from the built-in Dell diagnostics. All tests passed on thorough mode.. took a few hours.  The mechanical drive is new.

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While in the BIOS, did you look at the page that shows CPU temperature and fan speed?
Mechanical drives fail really quick or after a long time, so you never know with a new drive until you've used it for a while, and SMART doesn't catch everything. The SSD is a good idea regardless whether your drive is failing or not.

Dariusz Piatkowski:

--- Quote from: christech on October 10, 2023, 07:08:28 pm ---...My ArcaOS 5.1 machine has started to get sluggish. Not sure what I can check. For example, opening Drives takes 10 seconds to show the drives, Firefox takes 30 seconds to open.. etc...
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So how does that actually compare to the performance you saw BEFORE the issue started?

Are we talking a Day & Night kind of a difference, or is it that it "feels" like something's off?

Check Hobbes for a little util called 'cpuspeed', that'll show you the CPU core frequency in a CLI window, that way if the heat is an issue and your BIOS is throttling things back you should be able to tell.

In my case, I've got my Phenom II X6 set to 3850 MHz in BIOS and running at 3850 MHz while my OS/2 box is up and running.

christech:
It used to be snappier when opening folders.. Firefox has always been slow to load. Native apps load a lot quicker like Lotus SmartSuite and Describe, HyperAccess etc.

Question for you all.. I was reading that it might be better to have a 2 GB HPFS primary partition for the OS, and another JFS partition for Apps and another JFS partition for data. Any truth to this? If I'm going to re-do it, I want to do it right, rather than the easy one big JFS partition for the install.

Neil Waldhauer:
I happen to have two ArcaOS 5.1 partitions booting under UEFI on a Lenovo ThinkCentre M900. One has a 2 GB HPFS ArcaOS boot drive and a 10 GB JFS Programs, Home and Unixroot drive.

The HPFS drive boots in 24.4 seconds, while the JFS drive boots in 25.2 seconds. You will need a stopwatch to see the difference.

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