My pc runs slow especially when installing software on Fedora 39 KDE spin

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Hello,

As my title states my pc runs slow and some of my cpu cores are then pinned at 100%. On top of that sometimes when I shutdown my pc it starts back up again and the only way to turn it of is holding the power button.

I have been trying to find out what is going on. Memtest gave me zero errors, the gnome disks smart test doesn’t show any error so I am getting desperate. DMESG and JournalCTL keep giving me the same three error messages. On Pop OS when shutdown the pc it gave me the same messages.

I hope anyone can help me or point me in the right direction on how to solve this problem since it is the only pc I own. So thank you to anyone for any help or time they are willing to give me.

DMESG

[ 2800.328844] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_GPE._L09.D1F0], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/psargs-330)
[ 2800.328846] ACPI Error: Aborting method _GPE._L09 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20230628/psparse-529)
[ 2800.328849] ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L09] (20230628/evgpe-511)

Journalctl -b

Journal file /var/log/journal/f99a5e4534964825b1400237c4581039/user-1000@71b11e8862d6406daba6d183a495b01e-0000000000000000-0000000000000000.journal corrupted, ignoring file.
Nov 29 21:06:15 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _GPE._L09 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20230628/psparse-529)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home systemd-journald[634]: Missed 11233 kernel messages
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_GPE._L09.D1F0], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/psargs-330)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _GPE._L09 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20230628/psparse-529)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home systemd-journald[634]: Missed 1 kernel messages
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L09] (20230628/evgpe-511)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_GPE._L09.D1F0], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/psargs-330)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _GPE._L09 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20230628/psparse-529)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L09] (20230628/evgpe-511)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_GPE._L09.D1F0], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/psargs-330)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _GPE._L09 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20230628/psparse-529)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L09] (20230628/evgpe-511)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_GPE._L09.D1F0], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/psargs-330)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _GPE._L09 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20230628/psparse-529)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L09] (20230628/evgpe-511)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_GPE._L09.D1F0], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/psargs-330)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _GPE._L09 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20230628/psparse-529)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L09] (20230628/evgpe-511)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_GPE._L09.D1F0], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/psargs-330)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _GPE._L09 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20230628/psparse-529)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L09] (20230628/evgpe-511)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_GPE._L09.D1F0], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/psargs-330)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _GPE._L09 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20230628/psparse-529)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L09] (20230628/evgpe-511)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_GPE._L09.D1F0], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/psargs-330)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _GPE._L09 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20230628/psparse-529)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L09] (20230628/evgpe-511)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_GPE._L09.D1F0], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/psargs-330)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _GPE._L09 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20230628/psparse-529)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L09] (20230628/evgpe-511)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_GPE._L09.D1F0], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/psargs-330)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _GPE._L09 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20230628/psparse-529)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L09] (20230628/evgpe-511)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_GPE._L09.D1F0], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/psargs-330)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _GPE._L09 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20230628/psparse-529)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L09] (20230628/evgpe-511)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_GPE._L09.D1F0], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/psargs-330)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _GPE._L09 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20230628/psparse-529)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L09] (20230628/evgpe-511)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_GPE._L09.D1F0], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/psargs-330)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _GPE._L09 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20230628/psparse-529)
Nov 29 21:06:16 localhost-live.home kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, whiFailed to iterate through journal: Bad message
le evaluating GPE method [_L09] (20230628/evgpe-511)

And this is my LSPCI if it helps:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 06)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller (rev 06)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Cont
roller (rev 06)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Controller
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family ME Interface #1
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI Controller #2
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family HD Audio Controller
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev d0)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev d0)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI Controller #1
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Z97 Chipset LPC Controller
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family SATA Controller [AHCI Mode]
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller
01:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 XL Upstream Port of PCI Express Switch (rev 12)
02:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 XL Downstream Port of PCI Express Switch (rev 12)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 33 [Radeon RX 7700S/7600/7600S/7600M
XT/PRO W7600] (rev cf)
03:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controll
er (rev 06)

2

It is usual for the installation of an update to use 100% on some cores.
Depending on your hardware this may be significant.

Please install inxi and post the output of inxi -Fx so we have details of your hardware.

3

I just did this command:

journalctl -b -1 --priority=3

and I got this:

journalctl -b -1 --priority=3
Nov 29 14:30:23 Fedora39-KDE kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PCI0.PB2], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/dswload2-162)
Nov 29 14:30:23 Fedora39-KDE kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20230628/psobject-220)
Nov 29 14:30:23 Fedora39-KDE kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PCI0.PB2], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/dswload2-162)
Nov 29 14:30:23 Fedora39-KDE kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20230628/psobject-220)
Nov 29 14:30:23 Fedora39-KDE kernel: hub 6-0:1.0: config failed, hub doesn't have any ports! (err -19)
Nov 29 14:30:23 Fedora39-KDE systemd-vconsole-setup[348]: /usr/bin/setfont failed with exit status 71.
Nov 29 14:30:23 Fedora39-KDE kernel: ACPI Error: No handler for Region [ECSI] (00000000a6159e9a) [EmbeddedControl] (20230628/evregion-130)
Nov 29 14:30:23 Fedora39-KDE kernel: ACPI Error: Region EmbeddedControl (ID=3) has no handler (20230628/exfldio-261)
Nov 29 14:30:23 Fedora39-KDE kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.UBTC.ECRD due to previous error (AE_NOT_EXIST) (20230628/psparse-529)
Nov 29 14:30:23 Fedora39-KDE kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.UBTC._DSM due to previous error (AE_NOT_EXIST) (20230628/psparse-529)
Nov 29 14:30:23 Fedora39-KDE kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: ucsi_acpi_dsm: failed to evaluate _DSM 2
Nov 29 14:30:23 Fedora39-KDE systemd-vconsole-setup[561]: /usr/bin/setfont failed with exit status 71.
Nov 29 14:30:28 Fedora39-KDE bluetoothd[1022]: src/adapter.c:reset_adv_monitors_complete() Failed to reset Adv Monitors: Failed (0x03)
Nov 29 14:30:28 Fedora39-KDE bluetoothd[1022]: Failed to clear UUIDs: Failed (0x03)
Nov 29 14:30:28 Fedora39-KDE bluetoothd[1022]: Failed to add UUID: Failed (0x03)
Nov 29 14:30:28 Fedora39-KDE bluetoothd[1022]: Failed to add UUID: Failed (0x03)
Nov 29 14:30:28 Fedora39-KDE bluetoothd[1022]: Failed to add UUID: Failed (0x03)
Nov 29 14:30:29 Fedora39-KDE /usr/bin/nvidia-powerd[1045]: Allocate client failed 38
Nov 29 14:30:29 Fedora39-KDE /usr/bin/nvidia-powerd[1045]: Failed to initialize RM Client
Nov 29 14:30:29 Fedora39-KDE systemd[1]: Failed to start nvidia-powerd.service - nvidia-powerd service.
Nov 29 14:31:01 Fedora39-KDE cupsd[1546]: Unable to create "/etc/cups/subscriptions.conf.N": Permission denied
Nov 29 14:31:38 Fedora39-KDE kernel: 
Nov 29 14:31:49 Fedora39-KDE sddm-helper[7574]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Nov 29 14:31:58 Fedora39-KDE wpa_supplicant[1538]: bgscan simple: Failed to enable signal strength monitoring
Nov 29 14:32:00 Fedora39-KDE akonadiserver[8913]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_ews_resource_0', error message: ''
Nov 29 14:32:33 Fedora39-KDE cupsd[1546]: Unable to create "/etc/cups/subscriptions.conf.N": Permission denied
Nov 29 15:30:53 Fedora39-KDE cupsd[1546]: Unable to create "/etc/cups/subscriptions.conf.N": Permission denied
Nov 29 16:29:13 Fedora39-KDE cupsd[1546]: Unable to create "/etc/cups/subscriptions.conf.N": Permission denied
Nov 29 17:27:33 Fedora39-KDE cupsd[1546]: Unable to create "/etc/cups/subscriptions.conf.N": Permission denied
Nov 29 17:55:37 Fedora39-KDE kernel: ==================================================================
Nov 29 17:55:37 Fedora39-KDE kernel: BUG: KFENCE: out-of-bounds read in nv_match_dev_state+0x36/0x60 [nvidia]

Same (type of) errors as you have. I didn’t notice anything strange today in my laptop, but when I saw your errors I got curious and did the same and now I also see all these messages.
Are they serious, do we need to get worried or don’t they mean anything?

I use the KDE spin of Fedora 39.

4

The ACPI errors are becuase of bugs in the UEFI BIOS code that the linux kernel detect and will work around. Its rare that they indicate an issue to worry about.

5

Thank you for your response. I might not have explained it correctly in my title, my cpu pins certain cores 100% while being on the desktop and only having system monitor open. When it is particularly bad, the SSD/HDD activity light is solid white.

As for your request here are the results of inxi -Fx:

System:
Host: localhost-live.home Kernel: 6.6.2-201.fc39.x86_64 arch: x86_64
bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 2.40-13.fc39 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.9
Distro: Fedora release 39 (Thirty Nine)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z97M-DS3H v: N/A
serial:
Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z97M-DS3H v: x.x serial:
UEFI: American Megatrends v: F6 date: 04/21/2015
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech G604 Wireless Gaming Mouse
charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: discharging
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-4790K bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Haswell rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3429 high: 4380 min/max: 800/4400 cores: 1: 4202 2: 4298
3: 4347 4: 800 5: 800 6: 4227 7: 4380 8: 4380 bogomips: 64000
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
vendor: Gigabyte driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-7.5 bus-ID: 00:02.0
Device-2: AMD Navi 33 [Radeon RX 7700S/7600/7600S/7600M XT/PRO W7600]
vendor: Sapphire driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-3 bus-ID: 03:00.0
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.2
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,radeon,vesa dri: radeonsi,crocus gpu: i915,amdgpu
resolution: 1920x1080
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: crocus,radeonsi,swrast platforms:
active: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: N/A
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 23.2.1 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 7600 (gfx1102 LLVM 16.0.6 DRM
3.54 6.6.2-201.fc39.x86_64)
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.250 drivers: radv,intel,llvmpipe
surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland devices: 3
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0
Device-2: Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Device-3: AMD Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 03:00.1
Device-4: Kingston driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB
bus-ID: 1-12:4
API: ALSA v: k6.6.2-201.fc39.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus-ID: 05:00.0
IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: fc:aa:14:0c:19:86
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.26 TiB used: 95.72 GiB (4.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT480BX500SSD1 size: 447.13 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZRX-00D8PB0
size: 1.82 TiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 445.54 GiB used: 95.35 GiB (21.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda3
ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 360.3 MiB (37.0%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 17.4 MiB (2.9%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1
ID-4: /home size: 445.54 GiB used: 95.35 GiB (21.4%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/sda3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 31.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
Processes: 318 Uptime: 16m Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.21 GiB
used: 2.73 GiB (8.7%) Init: systemd target: graphical (5) Compilers: N/A
Packages: 14 note: see --rpm Shell: Bash v: 5.2.21 inxi: 3.3.31

6

I asked for inxi -Fx.

7

I am so sorry I will fix it.

8

It is fixed

9

I do not see anything that would lead to particularly slow performance.
You do have a very old, but fast, CPU.

I would not expect updates to be slow.

Can you share timing data? What does slow mean for you?

10

I do not understand what you mean with timing data. For me slow is the system taking several seconds to open programs or sometimes outright freezing during an installation.

11

what processes/programs are using all the CPU? htop in the terminal will show you. iotop may show you what’s writing to your storage device so much as well.

12

Recently I’ve faced the same issue. According to this very similar problem discussion problem could be with my Z97 motherboard. I’ve upgraded my motherboards firmware, but that didn’t help, so I’ve decided to use this bypass for now:
add @reboot echo "mask" > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe09 in cronie.
BTW I think you face performance issues due to journald just spamming this log messages so your ssd is always busy writing them or something.