Since I like to use Linux more than Windows in general, I am using a Linux system on my schools’ computer (with permission). To my personal dismay, their computers don’t have particularly strong components. Given that EndeavourOS seems to be MUCH more lightweight compared to Windows on my personal machine, I thought this wouldn’t be an issue, but damn does it go hard on the single-threaded quadcores my school uses.
Other than Baloo file indexer, which I already read about on Reddit, a major problem seems to be a process listed in gtop as “btrfs-cleaner”, a process I’ve never thus far noticed on my personal machine. It runs for ages - possibly doesn’t stop at all - and uses up the CPU a lot. Total CPU usage can spike up to >60% at least once per minute while otherwise remaining entirely idle.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find much about this online. The only one thing I found was something about auto defrag, but apparently that has already been fixed? Please advise.
If that is relevant, I use an AMD 5600X on my personal machine, while my schools’ computers are equipped with Intel Core i5-6600 CPUs.
Given that I don’t work with HDDs anymore whatsoever, I think I’ll do this on my main machine as well, maybe that’ll extend the lifespan of my SSDs a little.