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Please do not post .pdf output. Please post the contents of terminal output.
$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may
# be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if
# disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# file system> mount point> type> options> dump> pass>
UUID=6193-8309 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 2
UUID=d59f7485-ddc8-488f-a542-fbb4bb85e077 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=ceed562c-6375-46ae-abb0-cc235785fc4b swap swap defaults,noatime 0 2
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
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Please format the output correctly. I will edit your post as an example.
I didnât see anything out of the ordinary here?
I had to reboot my PC using the power button for the third time today. I saw a message in the exit terminal or whatever itâs called about orphaned inodes. At this point, I donât think thereâs much you guys can do. Iâll try some things, and keep you updated. Thank you so much for your support, though 
This is not solving your problem, but I would suggest not rebooting your PC using the power button as that can create additional problems. You should enable the Magic SysRq key so you can safely reboot at any time, no matter what the state of your computer is. The orphaned inodes might just be a consequence of you powering off your PC like that.
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I donât quite understand this statement. I know you posted it 2 days ago, but your log shows that you had reinstalled on 9/4 - which is much more than just a couple of days ago. Was this a complete install, or did you do something interesting in the install process? Like, was this a complete fresh EnOS install or did you keep something from your prior Arch install?
I just wanted to make sure itâs not some gremlin from a prior installation. Especially since it sounds like it may not be just EnOS specific.
My bad. I had Arch installed for a month before I completely wiped and reformatted the SSD it was on several days ago. So it was a complete fresh install of Arch, I just kept a list of programs I redownloaded from the AUR.
A fresh install of Arch? Or an install using EndeavourOS?
Fresh install using EndevOS. My bad, again.
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Well all these issues donât make any sense to me if all this is true. Linux just doesnât work like this. So you are going to have to check all your hardware and see if anything is faulty. I donât know what else to tell you.
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How did you wipe and format. i would remove other drives before doing any thing, do a stress test on it and your ram.
then do as it says here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_state_drive
Trim an entire device
If you want to trim your entire SSD at once, e.g. for a new install, or you want to sell your SSD, you can use the blkdiscard command, which will instantly discard all blocks on a device.
Warning: all data on the device will be lost!
blkdiscard /dev/sd X change the x to your drive letter /dev/sda for example
And hardware? Kernel info? Please post output of inxi -Fxxxza --no-host
I must say, that is a very interesting issue, especially since it crosses distro lines⌠. so you would think it would be a Plasma issue, . .
Just out of curiosity, have you tried Fedora or MX? Something not Arch based with the same results? Or XFCE? Are your sure itâs a Plasma issue?
Youâve got a relatively new install, Iâd distro hop at least a couple more times personally if you werenât having the issue prior to your Arch install. What were you running before that? Just Windows?
Does the problem also occur while youâre using Windows?
Whatâs wrong with this? What and how many programs is âsomeâ programs? What happens when you close them? Linux fundamentally used RAM differently than Windows, so it may not go down just because you close everything. The Linux ate my RAM website is helpful.
How did you setup swap? It looks like you have 16GB RAM and 9 GB swap? Why the breakdown and was this a swap partition or file? I donât think EnOS automatic partitioning would do that, so during install what was the reasoning for such allocation?
Iâm just trying to find what youâre doing differently than us. Something doesnât make sense in your install, or you have some faulty piece of hardware. Iâm currently on 6.5 days of uptime on this machine. Itâs also running Plasma, and Iâm still only using 2.5GB of RAM as I open and close things.
[derek@archlinuxkde ~]$ uptime
01:57:21 up 6 days, 9:35, 3 users, load average: 0.69, 0.66, 0.47
[derek@archlinuxkde ~]$ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15893 1699 11750 626 2443 13259
Swap: 16383 0 16383
[derek@archlinuxkde ~]$
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System: Kernel: 5.8.8-arch1-1 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=d59f7485-ddc8-488f-a542-fbb4bb85e077 rw quiet resume=UUID=ceed562c-6375-46ae-abb0-cc235785fc4b loglevel=3 nowatchdog Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 tk: Qt 5.15.1 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM Distro: EndeavourOS Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: MSI model: X370 GAMING PLUS (MS-7A33) v: 3.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 5.H0 date: 01/22/2019 CPU: Info: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ family: 17 (23) model-id: 8 stepping: 2 microcode: 800820D L2 cache: 4096 KiB flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 118419 Speed: 2405 MHz min/max: 2200/3700 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2423 2: 2425 3: 1891 4: 1893 5: 2180 6: 2188 7: 2275 8: 2957 9: 1716 10: 1719 11: 1715 12: 1718 13: 1714 14: 1723 15: 2182 16: 2187 Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected Type: l1tf status: Not affected Type: mds status: Not affected Type: meltdown status: Not affected Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling Type: srbds status: Not affected Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] vendor: ASRock driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 2b:00.0 chip ID: 1002:731f Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: amdgpu FAILED: ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa display ID: :0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") s-diag: 582mm (22.9") Monitor-1: HDMI-A-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 93 size: 527x296mm (20.7x11.7") diag: 604mm (23.8") Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing. Audio: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 2b:00.1 chip ID: 1002:ab38 Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 2d:00.3 chip ID: 1022:1457
Device-3: C-Media USB Audio Device type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 1-3:2
chip ID: 0d8c:0012
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.8-arch1-1
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8168
v: 8.048.03-NAPI modules: r8169 port: f000 bus ID: 21:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp33s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 25:00.0 chip ID: 8086:2723
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 3.64 TiB used: 208.01 GiB (5.6%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS200T3X0C-00SJG0 size: 1.82 TiB block size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 102430WD scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 4B6Q scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 4B6Q scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 922.42 GiB size: 906.94 GiB (98.32%) used: 208.01 GiB (22.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
Swap: Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.80 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 38.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 40.0 C mem: 40.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info: Processes: 383 Uptime: 1m Memory: 15.64 GiB used: 1.52 GiB (9.7%) Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0
clang: 10.0.1 Packages: 1079 pacman: 1065 lib: 262 flatpak: 14 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: konsole
inxi: 3.1.06
For question 1 and 2, I did use Kubuntu several months ago, but it broke on me one day, so I resumed using Windows for a while.
Does the problem also occur while youâre using Windows?
Not as far as I can tell. I was just asking that question since I heard from some people that Windows can mess up Linux installations, and was wondering if that was the issue 
Whatâs wrong with this? What and how many programs is âsomeâ programs? What happens when you close them? Linux fundamentally used RAM differently than Windows, so it may not go down just because you close everything. The Linux ate my RAM website is helpful.
It uses a ton of memory application wise. To reiterate, programs in my linux install will continually use more and more memory, and will never decrease in usage. When I used my PC for 3 days without rebooting it, it was using 5.5 GiB of memory, excluding disk cache. Besides, I donât think itâs normal for Plasma Shell or Discord to use so much memory. Itâs annoying for me, since I frequently play games and use Virtual Machines on my PC.
How did you setup swap? It looks like you have 16GB RAM and 9 GB swap? Why the breakdown and was this a swap partition or file? I donât think EnOS automatic partitioning would do that, so during install what was the reasoning for such allocation?
This is a swap partition. My intent was to have a 8GB swap partition but I must have messed up somewhere.
What other kernels have you tried? A LOT of problems are due to the Kernel. Please give the linux-lts kernel a go at the very least. Unless you have some hardware that is say, less than 6 months old, lots of people benefit from the LTS kernel. You may be in that category since you said that you said itâs MSI gaming computer.
And my question I asked is why is that a problem? Youâve made it clear you think itâs a problem, but what makes you positive that it is the issue? At 3 days and 5.5GB of memory consumption isnât necessarily a bad thing at all. Upon turning my computer on I baseline at like 500mb of RAM, and after opening a bunch of stuff and then closing all of it, I will probably never drop below 2GB of âusageâ again.
You have 16GB of RAM, 5.5GB is not a problem. Did you check out https://www.linuxatemyram.com/ yet? The first line explains:
Whatâs going on?
Linux is borrowing unused memory for disk caching. This makes it looks like you are low on memory, but you are not! Everything is fine!
Donât think. . . Or itâs not normal? Prior to your Arch install a couple months ago, what distro(s) were you using? What kind of memory usage were you seeing there? Or is this just in comparison to Windows?
Does this happen when youâre not using a VM? VMâs, especially if youâre using them for gaming, can be extremely resource heavy. And depending on how you setup your VM system with RAM allocation, that could without question be what is causing freezes. Iâm not very good with VMâs so Iâll let someone else chime on that, but whatever you allocate to a VM I believe is resources your computer flat out cannot use. So, if you need 8GB for a VM, you donât have 16GB anymore, you have 8, and your swap should be bigger to help with that. Especially if you wanted hibernate to work, which it wonât unless swap is at least equal to RAM. Most of the guys who use VMâs are over 16GB of RAM these days.
With that youâve exhausted my knowledge of what I am able to help you with. If I were me, my first go would be to switch and use the linux-lts kernel. And if that doesnât work, I would do another complete reinstall, and use the automatic paritioning this time. Just let it do itâs thing. Unless you know what youâre tweaking, you may be doing more harm than good. Also I noticed that for fan speeds it says N/A. . . if youâre overheating, you could be throttling and feeling like itâs frozen as well.
If anyone else has ideas, please feel free. Iâm not really sure what else to suggest at this point.
@Steppingonthebeach
With the hardware you are running you should not be having the issues you are having. Although I have a somewhat newer setup yours is no slouch. My plasma set up is very fast & responsive and uses no swap and very little ram. Windows installed on another drive shouldnât have anything to do with it unless you have some unorthodox setup Iâm not aware of .
I replaced my motherboard and RAM, and wiped my EndevOS again, and then reinstalled it. Even on a fresh install, it still has the same issues. I think my computer just might be allergic to Linux at this point. Thank you all for trying to help.
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Itâs not. And Iâm sure with more questions we can figure it out. Iâm very sure it has something to do with your VMs and not understanding Linux RAM usage. But I would be very frustrated after all of that, especially replacing pieces and still not fixing anything. Iâm sorry to hear that.
But alas, Linux isnât for everyone/everything. Good luck wherever it takes you from here!
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