Since FreeBSD 14.1-part4 to part5 horrible experience

[Charlie Brown]

I noticed that since I upgraded the system to 14.1 part 5 that the system is slow and always freezing, before that it was fast and snapy. I would like to know if I'm the only one who noticed a change like that since 14.1- part 5.

I have FreeBSD installed on a 1 tb ssd external drive sanDisk the laptop is a lenovo thinkpad yoga 370.

But i would like to have return from people using different setup too.

 

[chrislongros]

I think you mean patch and not "part", these patches contain mostly security fixes. Do you have a desktop environment ? Have you upgraded packages or ports too?

 

[Charlie Brown]

I think you mean patch and not "part", these patches contain most of the time security fixes. Do you have a desktop environment ? Have you upgraded packages or ports too?

Yes, I have a Desktop Environment, Plasma 5. I don't use port, but regularly update packages from pkg. It started to freeze since the last Plasma update but I cant be sure that the problem is there... also chromium is using a lot of CPU which it didn't do before. System often freeze while browsing the internet, or reading a PDF file. I have to disconnect the internet to regain control of the graphical environment.

 

[chrislongros]

So what is your current Plasma version ?

 

[cracauer@]

I have to disconnect the internet to regain control of the graphical environment.

Hmmm.

Can you post a copy-n-paste of `top` when the CPU load is high?

 

[SirDice]

since I upgraded the system to 14.1 part 5 that the system is slow and always freezing

Post hoc ergo propter hoc
p5 included two security issues and one errata.

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-24:16.pf.asc

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-24:15.bhyve.asc

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-24:16.libnv.asc

None of them have any impact on the performance of the system as a whole.

 

[Ogis]

Maybe my advice won't be the best, but maybe it's worth turning off all the desktop Plasma effects?

 

[Charlie Brown]

So what is your current Plasma version ?

Operating System: FreeBSD 14.1
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.116.0
Qt Version: 5.15.15
Kernel Version: 14.1-RELEASE-p5 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
System Version: ThinkPad Yoga 370

 

[Charlie Brown]

Hmmm.

Can you post a copy-n-paste of `top` when the CPU load is high?

I tried that, but the time I get to a TTY terminal or the Konsole I can't see it. Chromium and baloofilextractor are often high CPU consumer. But Every time I unplug the internet when that happen everything go back to normal. Also it's not consistent, I had a lot of random freeze this morning, but now none of them.

 

[chrislongros]

That happens a lot of times after a KDE update. The baloo indexer consumes a lot of CPU and then it goes idle.
I often avoid packages that use baloo or akonadi services e.g. KMail etc.

 

[Charlie Brown]

That happens a lot of times after a KDE update. The baloo indexer consumes a lot of CPU and then it goes idle.
I often avoid packages that use baloo e.g. KMail etc.

Yes, maybe it's baloo indexer, but I can't catch it while it's happening, so I can't be sure it's that, also, prior to the plasma update before the latest security patch, I didn't have this issue of freezing GUI environment and I don't understand why it happen only when I connect to the internet and resolve it self when unplug.. I tried one time to remove KMail and other unused apps but It cant be done without removing the entire DE.

 

[Charlie Brown]

Maybe my advice won't be the best, but maybe it's worth turning off all the desktop Plasma effects?

I don't know about that, Why should it be worth doing??

 

[Ogis]

I don't know about that, Why should it be worth doing??

I think it's worth a try because it speeds up the system SIGNIFICANTLY.

 

[fmc000]

Take a look at this bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487043

 

[Charlie Brown]

PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
39730 free         11  39    0  1140G   271M CPU1     1   1:14  37.24% chrome
30665 free         15  45    0   834M   183M select   0  13:38  37.15% chrome

 

[cracauer@]

PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
39730 free         11  39    0  1140G   271M CPU1     1   1:14  37.24% chrome
30665 free         15  45    0   834M   183M select   0  13:38  37.15% chrome

I was hoping for a more complete output, including the header lines.

 

[Charlie Brown]

The issue was with ublock origin which is no longer supported by google, so I will just stop using www/chromium. Switched to www/firefox.

 

[Charlie Brown]

[Edit] :

www/chromium was freezing a lot due to that extension resulting in the system freezing. But I noticed that graphics/okular
was consuming lots of CPU too and often crashed, closing itself randomly without saving the current work or warned me. I have stoped using this app and started to use
print/qpdf instead which doesn't crash and remember open tabs after it closed. Also it seem to have a problem with /usr/local/bin/kwin_x11 and x11/xorg when trying to access the volume menu in the KDE desktop panel. So my thought is that the last version of x11/plasma5-plasma seems to be unstable..

 

[malavon]

There has been an issue with some QT-ports, it affected me too. It was fixed later and I did a pkg upgrade -f to catch any ports that didn't get version-bumped. Okular was one of the applications that had issues. I do not use quarterly though, I don't know if something broke there too.[/cmd]