Why is my system so slow ?

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Abhid

I have updated my FreeBSD to 13.1-RELEASE a few days ago. My system configuration is as follows:

4 GB RAM
AMD E2 Dual core 64-bit processor
1 TB SATA Hard Disk

I use the xfce desktop.

As I was typing this, the cursor froze and then all letters appeared after a few seconds. The mouse pointer often freezes for a second while scrolling.

Firefox (version 104.0.1) is painfully slow. Scrolling down pages is very jittery. New tabs open 2 seconds after clicking them.

My Questions:
  1. Is my processor/ RAM/ disk out of date ?
  2. If yes, should I upgrade my entire laptop, or should I just get an SSD Drive and add more RAM ?
  3. If no, is there some kind of defragmentation possible ?
 
eternal_noob and larshenrikoern, my graphics card is inbuilt in the CPU. This is the output of dmesg:
Code: 
CPU: AMD E2-9000 RADEON R2, 4 COMPUTE CORES 2C+2G    (1796.73-MHz K8-class CPU)
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0

About hardware acceleration, I'll have to check. It's almost 1 am here, I'll Google and inform tomorrow.
 
you'll want to look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

if it mentions falling back to scfb or vesa then you're not accelerated and that's likely the issue
 
Abhid said:
I have updated my FreeBSD to 13.1-RELEASE a few days ago.
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Did you upgrade packages afterwards? If not, you have a version mismatch between your graphics driver and the base system, which would explain the failing acceleration.
 
bsduck said:
Did you upgrade packages afterwards? If not, you have a version mismatch between your graphics driver and the base system, which would explain the failing acceleration.
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Yes I had done that after upgrading to 13.1-RELEASE.

K5KGT said:
you'll want to look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

if it mentions falling back to scfb or vesa then you're not accelerated and that's likely the issue
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This is the output of /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Code: 
# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep scfb
[    28.703] (==) Matched scfb as autoconfigured driver 2
[    29.058] (II) LoadModule: "scfb"
[    29.058] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/scfb_drv.so
[    29.079] (II) Module scfb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    29.264] (II) scfb: driver for wsdisplay framebuffer: scfb
[    29.286] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for scfb
[    29.286] scfb trace: probe start
[    29.286] scfb trace: probe done
[    29.487] (II) UnloadModule: "scfb"
[    29.487] (II) Unloading scfb
root@freebsd:~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep vesa
[    28.703] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 3
[    29.079] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[    29.079] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[    29.087] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    29.264] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa

It unloaded the "scfb" module and loads vesa_drv.so. Could this have slowed down the hardware acceleration ?
 
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