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ryan
would it be the HDD that's bogging it down most likely
would it be the HDD that
's bogging it down most likely
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ryan
OP
•
4/2/24, 12:06 AM
or is it moreso a cpu task
R
ryan
would it be the HDD that's bogging it down most likely
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:07 AM
that could be yea
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:07 AM
im not sure though
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:07 AM
i also have a secondary 1TB HDD
, but i have it formatted to ext4
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/2/24, 12:07 AM
on my desktop I have a 2TB NVME
, a 1TB NVME
, a 4TB SSD
, and a 2TB SSD
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/2/24, 12:07 AM
duperemove completes in
<15 minutes
, using 500
% CPU
(Which is 5 cores of 48
)
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/2/24, 12:07 AM
no stutter
R
ryan
OP
•
4/2/24, 12:07 AM
yea id be curious whether it
's just a hard drive issue across the board
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/2/24, 12:08 AM
additionally
,this same service is used on a steam deck via steamos
-btrfs
R
ryan
OP
•
4/2/24, 12:08 AM
48 cpu cores is wild
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/2/24, 12:08 AM
and does not cause performance issues there
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/2/24, 12:08 AM
so it
's likely something specific to you two
R
ryan
48 cpu cores is wild
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:08 AM
he has a threadripper lol
R
ryan
OP
•
4/2/24, 12:09 AM
I didn
't know the sd card on steam deck used btrfs
R
ryan
OP
•
4/2/24, 12:09 AM
that
's confusing then yea
, ig ill keep diagnosing
R
ryan
I didn't know the sd card on steam deck used btrfs
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/2/24, 12:09 AM
it does if you use steamos
-btrfs
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/2/24, 12:09 AM
which we ship
R
ryan
OP
•
4/2/24, 12:09 AM
by default
?
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/2/24, 12:09 AM
yes
R
ryan
OP
•
4/2/24, 12:09 AM
gotcha
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/2/24, 12:10 AM
Fedora itself defaults to btrfs
, so we do too
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/2/24, 12:10 AM
no EXT4
D
Daph
I might have had an external hard drive plugged in at the last time it ran but I...
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:14 AM
what device are you using bazzite on
?
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:14 AM
im guessing desktop
D
Daph
•
4/2/24, 12:15 AM
Yep
D
Daph
•
4/2/24, 12:16 AM
i
'll try running it again
, the external hdd is not connected
D
Daph
•
4/2/24, 12:19 AM
well a good sign is that it
's no longer using 100
% cpu like it was before
R
ryan
OP
•
4/2/24, 12:19 AM
huge
D
Daph
•
4/2/24, 12:20 AM
more like 60
% with some spikes
(although in top it says 470
%
)
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:20 AM
how is performance
?
D
Daph
•
4/2/24, 12:20 AM
lemme open a game
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:20 AM
yeah that would be the true test
D
Daph
•
4/2/24, 12:20 AM
desktop performance is not noticeably worse than when it
's not running tho
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:20 AM
if it
's related to btrfs
+ HDD then i think we
'll have to recommend HDDs to be formatted to ext4 from now on
D
Daph
desktop performance is not noticeably worse than when it's not running tho
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:20 AM
fair
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
if it's related to btrfs + HDD then i think we'll have to recommend HDDs to be f...
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:21 AM
decent timing because im about to finish the documentation for automounting secondary drives finally
R
ryan
OP
•
4/2/24, 12:21 AM
time to unplug my HDD to try lmao
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:21 AM
yeah that would be helpful
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:22 AM
if either of you report performance issues with the HDD unplugged
/unmounted still let us know
D
Daph
•
4/2/24, 12:22 AM
it
's by no means unbearable
, but bg3 seems to be running at around half the usual framerate
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:23 AM
ok that
's a little bit better
, if the test takes a long time though
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:23 AM
then that
's an issue
D
Daph
•
4/2/24, 12:24 AM
seems like cpu is becoming the bottleneck because it
's at 99
% and the game is only using 40
-50
% of my gpu
D
Daph
seems like cpu is becoming the bottleneck because it's at 99% and the game is on...
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:24 AM
only during the test
? is the test still running
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:24 AM
not test
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:25 AM
the service
D
Daph
•
4/2/24, 12:25 AM
during the test yeah
D
Daph
•
4/2/24, 12:25 AM
with btrfs
-dedup service
T
tryhardsoccermomswag
•
4/2/24, 12:25 AM
yea
D
Daph
•
4/2/24, 12:25 AM
but now it
's back to normal performance
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