Hi guys!
I have what I’d consider a beefy gaming PC. AMD 7700 CPU, 32GB RAM, 7800XT 16GB, NVMe 1TB for OS, mSATA SSD 2TB for storage/games.
So…whenever I get a while using the computer, with a bunch of windows open, say firefox taking 4GB of RAM, total for everything a bit over 16GB…I’m prone to get a whole system slowdown/freeze, which can take a few full minutes until it settles. I can see the storage red led on the whole time without blinking, so it really looks like swapping.
However sometimes I don’t see movements in the system process viewer, in usage from RAM/swap, I’d imagine those graphs would change if the data in swap has changed.
Swapping is set in the mSATA, taking 8GB, so I reckon that migth not be the fastest. Still, that’s an SSD. I’m not sure how can I check/troubleshoot whatever is tanking my computer performance?
I will add to all of this, which is basically good advice, also MONITOR how changes you make affect performance, use tools like glances, btop, iotop, top, free, to monitor various system parameters and modern kernels really do help a lot. I saw wait time go down quite a bit with 6.14 relative to 6.13, granted this is an environment with around 1000 simultaneous processes and even more threads, but I think it will help most loads. But bottom line, measure, measure, and then measure.