I am using Fedora 36 and it was pretty fast at the beginning but after a few software installations, all system is very slow. It almost never lets me multitask, if two applications are opened it brings me a NOT RESPONDING - FORCELY STOP dialog box.
Windows 10 was running smoothly without any lags or freezes.
And I have a Nvidia GeForce 820M Graphics Card which is probably not utilized, as 1080p youtube video almost freezes without any CPU heat.
Can i knows what causing the error.
Here are the outputs of inxi -Fzx and lsblk
System:
Kernel: 5.19.9-200.fc36.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 2.37-36.fc36 Desktop: GNOME v: 42.5
Distro: Fedora release 36 (Thirty Six)
Machine:
Type: Portable System: Dell product: Inspiron 3542 v: N/A
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0926J6 v: A14 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
v: A14 date: 05/23/2018
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5-4210U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Haswell rev: 1 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1056 high: 1386 min/max: 800/2700 cores: 1: 1090 2: 948
3: 800 4: 1386 bogomips: 13567
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell driver: i915
v: kernel arch: Gen7.5 bus-ID: 00:02.0
Device-2: NVIDIA GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT
620M/625M/630M/720M]
vendor: Dell driver: nouveau v: kernel arch: Fermi bus-ID: 08:00.0
Device-3: Suyin Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-1.5:4
Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 1.22.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3
compositor: gnome-shell driver: gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2)
v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.7 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0
Device-2: Intel 8 Series HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.19.9-200.fc36.x86_64 running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.58 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Dell driver: ath9k v: kernel bus-ID: 06:00.0
IF: wlp6s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Dell
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 07:00.0
IF: enp7s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-1.6:11
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 30.36 GiB (3.3%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD100 size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 220.03 GiB used: 30.05 GiB (13.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda9
ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 272.5 MiB (28.0%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda5
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 496 MiB used: 40 MiB (8.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
ID-4: /home size: 220.03 GiB used: 30.05 GiB (13.7%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/sda9
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 3.73 GiB used: 1.56 GiB (41.8%)
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C mobo: 54.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2354
Info:
Processes: 273 Uptime: 1h 11m Memory: 3.73 GiB used: 2.73 GiB (73.1%)
Init: systemd target: graphical (5) Compilers: gcc: 12.2.1 Packages: 6
note: see --pkg Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.19
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 998.6M 1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/android-studio/123
loop1 7:1 0 114.9M 1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/core/13741
loop2 7:2 0 55.6M 1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/2566
loop3 7:3 0 194.9M 1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/flutter/126
loop4 7:4 0 63.2M 1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/core20/1623
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 500M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 40M 0 part
├─sda4 8:4 0 750M 0 part
├─sda5 8:5 0 1G 0 part /boot
├─sda6 8:6 0 200.4G 0 part
├─sda7 8:7 0 508.7G 0 part
└─sda9 8:9 0 220G 0 part /home
/
sr0 11:0 1 287.5M 0 rom
zram0 252:0 0 3.7G 0 disk [SWAP]
You don’t have that much RAM to begin with.
Which ones?
Which two applications?
Use your desktop’s resource manager (e.g. “System Monitor” in GNOME) to see how much memory each of your applications consumes.
You are using the nouveau driver for your nvidia card. Nouveau is unable to support hardware acceleration on the nvidia card and it is possible that the need to do software rendering with the cpu is slowing things down a lot.
If that is the case, the best fix would be to install the nvidia drivers which manage hardware acceleration for you.
And in addition, since you have too little RAM, your CPU is busy compressing and decompressing memory that is swapped into zram. System monitor will show. Glad there is zram in Fedora. If you would swap onto your really slow HDD, the experience would be even worse.
Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 3.73 GiB used: 1.56 GiB (41.8%) dev: /dev/zram0
I won’t run heavy apps … But using atom ( text editor) and even opening a web browser ( brave ) i get a response of not responding and even sometimes it closes automatically without any warning.
I tried installing drivers. But after a restart there was an message like " Somthing not working get back to nouveau"
That could be systemd-oomd, which kills apps, when your RAM and swap are near full, see Changes/EnableSystemdOomd - Fedora Project Wiki
You need to use System Monitor (or tools like btopor htop) to watch what’s going on for your CPU and RAM. The browser alone can eat 2GB RAM for breakfast.
How did you do that? Did you follow the instructions on Howto/NVIDIA - RPM Fusion by any chance?
Yes I have used the same link and followed for Legacy GeForce 600/700 is it correct, or do I need to install it for other versions?
And I would like to mention that when I boot my system I get a grub of 4+versions of fedora with Windows 10, even though I have deleted windows. When I click on windows it simply says to reinstall windows… Does this have anything to do with the problem ??
Don’t know much about nividia but usually they stop supporting old GPU’s at some point and instead of the 470 driver you may need to stick to the older 390, as in Legacy GeForce 400/500 (xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-390xx akmod-nvidia-390xx).
To remove the 470 version of the driver before installing the other one: Howto/NVIDIA - RPM Fusion
Getting an error
No match for argument: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-390xx
No match for argument: akmod-nvidia-390xx
Error: Unable to find a match: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-390xx akmod-nvidia-390xx
The error you’re seeing suggests that you have not enabled the RPM Fusion repository. Start by doing that and then follow the guide for your graphics card.
RPM Fusion is enabled and here is the list of repolist
$ sudo dnf repolist
repo id repo name
Atom Atom Editor
anydesk AnyDesk Fedora - stable
fedora Fedora 36 - x86_64
fedora-cisco-openh264 Fedora 36 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64
fedora-modular Fedora Modular 36 - x86_64
google-chrome google-chrome
phracek-PyCharm Copr repo for PyCharm owned by phracek
rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 36 - Free
rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 36 - Free - Updates
rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver RPM Fusion for Fedora 36 - Nonfree - NVIDIA Driver
rpmfusion-nonfree-steam RPM Fusion for Fedora 36 - Nonfree - Steam
updates Fedora 36 - x86_64 - Updates
updates-modular Fedora Modular 36 - x86_64 - Updates
In that case, dnf info akmod-nvidia* should list the following packages: akmod-nvidia, akmod-nvidia-340xx, akmod-nvidia-390xx, akmod-nvidia-470xx. Is that what you see?
Also, follow the steps outlined in this post and report back.
These are the three last Fedora kernels you had installed, plus a rescue kernel. Since you’ve deleted windows, the windows boot entry you are seeing and which proposes the reinstallation of windows is probably a hidden restore partition. All of that is normal and has nothing to do with your issue.
Available Packages
Name : akmod-nvidia
Epoch : 3
Version : 515.65.01
Release : 1.fc36
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 27 k
Source : nvidia-kmod-515.65.01-1.fc36.src.rpm
Repository : rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
Summary : Akmod package for nvidia kernel module(s)
URL : https://www.nvidia.com/
License : Redistributable, no modification permitted
Description : This package provides the akmod package for the nvidia kernel
: modules.
Name : akmod-nvidia-470xx
Epoch : 3
Version : 470.141.03
Release : 1.fc36
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 26 k
Source : nvidia-470xx-kmod-470.141.03-1.fc36.src.rpm
Repository : rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
Summary : Akmod package for nvidia-470xx kernel module(s)
URL : https://www.nvidia.com/
License : Redistributable, no modification permitted
Description : This package provides the akmod package for the nvidia-470xx
: kernel modules.
Did you try that?
Yes I same as before
Nvidea Kernal Models Missing, switching back to Nouveau
And after using the system monitor these are the results
After opening just VS code
It crashes and closes automatically, and after waiting for 30min with no apps running
It’s still the same
What is the output of rpm -qa akmod*?
In the “Processes” tab of System Monitor you can see how much memory each process consumes. Which are the biggest offenders? I suspect that your use of snaps makes things worse…
akmods-0.5.7-8.fc36.noarch
akmod-nvidia-470xx-470.141.03-1.fc36.x86_64
Even I tried to build kernels
sudo akmods --force && sudo dracut --force
which gave me a result OK