Infinite Loop - System Unresponsive for 5-10 Seconds then Recovers

[pelephant2]

System details

Linux 6.16.8-arch3-1, Nvidia 4080, hyprland 0.51.1, Omarchy 3.0.1

What's wrong?

Omarchy 3.0.0 was working great for the past week, until I ran Omarchy Menu > Update > Omarchy. Since then my system is stuck in an endless loop of:

• system works fine for 20-30 seconds
• system monitor shows my hard drive peg at 100%
• hyprland warning dialogue Application not responding
• system becomes unresponsive for 5-10 seconds
• system monitor hdd drops from 100% to 5-20%, system recovers, system then goes back to step 1, repeats this loop endlessly

I can't be the only person experiencing this. I have to imagine this is an upstream issue with hyprland 0.51.1. Here's my current details:

Linux 6.16.8-arch3-1
Nvidia 4080
hyprland 0.51.1
Omarchy 3.0.1

How would I even begin to troubleshoot and correct this issue?

[pelephant2]

Update: I dug deeper and ran iotop and saw that GNOME's localsearch-3 command was the program causing my hard drive to peg at 100% every 30 seconds or so for 5-10 second bursts (rendering my system unusable). I then ran systemctl --user stop localsearch-3.service which has successfully stopped the issue.

I've got a new problem now, that being my Nautilus file manager will no longer index my hard drive. I recently deleted several packages with pacman -Rns <package names>. Maybe I inadvertently removed dependencies I needed? I might just try and use some other file manager, as I don't know how to proceed in the best manner.

[twistedmacaroni]

I'm having the same issue -- did you manage to find a fix yet? My Chromium goes "Application Not Responding" periodically and the entire system freezes. It's usually with browsers.

[pelephant2]

systemctl --user stop localsearch-3.service is the only thing that stopped it for me. Nautilus no longer indexes my hard drive, so searches take a bit longer in the file explorer but it's no big deal to me. If I need a fast search I go into my terminal go to the root directory I want to search and type ff which is the fast fuzzy finder.

Also, in the latest Omarchy 3.1.1 the timeour for "Application Not Responding" was increased from 2 seconds to 5 seconds which may help you out.

[varo6]

Having the same problem right now. Stopping localsearch3 did nothing, still freezing for about 10 seconds. Any idea?

[pelephant2]

To troubleshoot you can install iotop with sudo pacman -S iotop and then see if anything is hitting your hard drive hard (pardon the pun) by running iotop from your terminal. Also check btop to see if anything's draining your system resources by pressing Super + Shift + T on your keyboard.

[varo6]

To troubleshoot you can install iotop with sudo pacman -S iotop and then see if anything is hitting your hard drive hard (pardon the pun) by running iotop from your terminal. Also check btop to see if anything's draining your system resources by pressing Super + Shift + T on your keyboard.

Thanks! after much trial and errors, my problem was btrfs cleaner running every 10-15 seconds but no balance was running. I managed to fix it with sudo btrfs quota disable /

[DmitriyKozl]

Is there a fix for this? I stopped the localsearch3 didn't do anything

Edit: ok i deleted the chromium config folder and i does not crash.