since switching from an ancient Mint 16 (or as it 17?) to a brand-new Mint 19.1 MATE (complete re-install from scratch including manually restoring the relevant parts of /home from backup), my system is lagging continually. I notice these lags during
- scrolling (mildly), e.g. in Firefox, but also in LibreOffice Writer and other software
- while typing (severely), for instance in LibreOffice Writer, Firefox (e.g. Google Mail, Whatsapp Web), Thunderbird - quite often, I can type the characters of a complete line before anything is displayed (but then again, for the next half minute, everything is instantaneous). Especially annoying are the lags occuring during note entry in MuseScore.
Switching between nvidia-390 and nouveau does not seem to make any difference. Should it be true that my poor notebook is too old for a smooth desktop experience?
Output of inxi -Fxz:
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System:
Host: Aquarium Kernel: 4.15.0-43-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 7.3.0 Desktop: MATE 1.20.1 Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa
base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire E5-574G v: V1.11
serial: <filter>
Mobo: Acer model: Zoro_SL v: V1.11 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.11
date: 12/23/2015
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 21.7 Wh condition: 25.6/37.0 Wh (69%)
model: SANYO AL15A32 status: Discharging
CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-6200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Skylake rev: 3 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 19200
Speed: 2600 MHz min/max: 400/2700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2600 2: 2637
3: 2600 4: 2659
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 520 vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI Skylake GT2
driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 940M] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: nvidia v: 390.77 bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce 940M/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.77
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-43-generic
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 3000
bus ID: 02:00.0
IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Foxconn driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 786.25 GiB (84.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10JPVX-22JC3T0
size: 931.51 GiB temp: 28 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 93.37 GiB used: 18.35 GiB (19.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /home size: 813.91 GiB used: 767.89 GiB (94.3%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda3
ID-3: swap-1 size: 9.08 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda4
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 49 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 185 Uptime: 13m Memory: 7.66 GiB used: 1.93 GiB (25.2%)
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.19
inxi: 3.0.27
