Last year I switched over to EndeavourOS from Linux Mint and I definitely vastly prefer it. But at some point later last year, I started getting random stuttering. It happens once to three times a day, where my computer will just start stuttering and being choppy for about a second or two, then be fine after that, until it inevitably happens again later on. I was using KDE Plasma, and thought maybe it was the DE, so I switched over to Cinnamon, and it still happens. I switched back over to Linux Mint recently for a couple months, and it never happened. So I decided to switch back over to EndeavourOS because I prefer it a lot, and it’s still happening. Even within the 42 minutes uptime I’ve had while typing this, it happened. Any possibility you guys know what’s going on? Thank you!
I have pretty similar specs to you, also running on Cinnamon. I’ve been encountering this issue for a few months also. I’ve checked logs and have never found anything out of the ordinary. I was hoping that it wasn’t just me
Comforting to know I’m not the only one experiencing this! This tells me it’s not a hardware issue but rather probably some driver compatibility issues, yeah. At least that’s my assumption. Hopefully someone can help us out?
balooctl suspend
balooctl disable
balooctl purge
balooctl status
It’s a file indexing service that is known to cause exactly this sort of stuttering. It’s pretty useless in my opinion, I search for files using the terminal (with fd).
Just did a clean install with Cinnamon, doesn’t seem to have baloo installed, I think that’s a KDE thing from what I saw on the Arch Linux wiki? This time I tried doing pacman -S nvidia instead of nvidia-inst, but it still seems to be happening, unfortunately. I think it has something to do with Nvidia drivers, maybe.
This could be it, especially since Vegakuma said they also use a Ryzen processor. I wonder if due to Linux Mint not being a rolling distro, that is why I don’t experience the stuttering when using it? Seems like maybe I should look into updating the BIOS of my motherboard, and maybe turn off the fTPM feature? Or should I wait for the 6.2 kernel?
I don’t have an AMD cpu, but I don’t see any hurt in trying, you can always turn it back on. If you dual boot, Windows might complain though. I don’t remember if tpm is mandatory now or not.
There is also the LTS kernel. If it is not affected by this problem, and if this is the real issue, you could always run the LTS until the latest kernel is fixed.
Yeah I went ahead and updated the BIOS. I have an ASUS X570-P motherboard in a desktop at the moment. I was running a BIOS version before the mentioned fix to fTPM, so I updated to the latest version which is 4601. Everything went well and I’m back into Endeavour, so I’ll keep using it and see if I still experience the stutters. Thanks again!
Hey just wanted to check back in and say that updating my BIOS seems to have fixed this issue. Others in this thread experiencing the same thing, I would highly encourage giving it a try. Thanks again @ricklinux, @LamnaNasus, and @Kresimir for all your help.
