Re: [arch-general] KDE plasma, baloo and UI/video playback freezes

So, I finally tried the BFQ scheduler as Carsten suggested. I tested it eg. using youtube-dl to download a big video from Vimeo (it creates/remove quickly a lot of temp files that baloo indexes every time causing a lot of IO), while Qbittorrent was downloading several big files... So 100% disk

Re: [arch-general] Why on 1st run does pacman -Qi take so long? (15 seconds waiting for Qi?)

Hi David, > This is new, after the latest pacman update along with 4.6.13, when > running > $ pacman -Qi somepackage > for the first time it takes 15 seconds for any response. I've always found it sluggish if its data isn't cached in RAM. `vmstat 1' shows one core is pegged out waiting for I/

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux ISO 2018.06.01 lost rankmirrors

2018-06-01 21:39 GMT+02:00 Eli Schwartz via arch-general : > No it isn't recommended. BTW this was discussed here: > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1788961#p1788961 I don't know why I thought that installation guide have one mention to rankmirrors. My memory have holes... :-D > I se

[arch-general] Why on 1st run does pacman -Qi take so long? (15 seconds waiting for Qi?)

This is new, after the latest pacman update along with 4.6.13, when running $ pacman -Qi somepackage for the first time it takes 15 seconds for any response. E.g., $ time pmqi colord Name: colord Version : 1.4.3-1 Description : System daemon for managing color devices Arc