On 10/25/22 14:34, William Torrez Corea wrote:
On 10/19/22, David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote:Have you tested your system disk? To start a long test: 2022-10-19 18:34:55 root@laalaa ~ # smartctl -t long /dev/sda Wait for test to complete, then get the report: 2022-10-19 18:34:55 root@laalaa ~ # smartctl -x /dev/sda Are you backing up your data to a HDD, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, BD-ROM, etc.? (USB flash drives are risky for backups. SSD's are fast, but expensive.)
Attachment: smartctl.txt <snip> Model Family: Toshiba L200 (SMR) Device Model: TOSHIBA HDWL110 <snip>It looks like your HDD had some DMA issues in the past, but everything looks okay now. Did your laptop come with that HDD, or did you install it later? Have you removed and reinstalled the HDD?
Hard disk drives are much slower than solid-state drives. Misaligned partitions cause more slowness. Fragmented filesystems cause more slowness. A shortage of inodes causes more slowness. Please run the following commands (as root) and post the complete console session -- prompt, command entered, output displayed:
# fdisk -l /dev/sda # cat /etc/fstab # mount | grep sda # df / # df -i / David