I need help figuring out why my Chromebook is running very slow. I have an HP Chromebook 11A G6 EE , during install and during the first boot up all the way until the first shutdown the system was running extraordinary. Come back the next morning and turn it on and nothing seems to load without stuttering and taking a long time. Where do I start looking? I have checked the RAM and it’s usually less than a gigabyte on startup, and even with Firefox open maybe creeps up to 1.3 GB to used. I do have swap enabled however I’m having problems well before I run into needing to swap. I also tried using ZRAM however that didn’t really make things much better. I’ve also tried switching the window manager which also did not help a ton. What else should I be looking at?
So, everything worked fine until you turned the installed system off for the first time. And you can’t in any way get it to return the original performance? If so, the only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that during that first use environment, you installed some additional software that resulted in new daemons running, thus using some of your resources.
The only other explanation I can think of is that there is something different in the way that you used it that first time versus the second time.
Could it have been all the updates after os install? I did update everything before I shut it off
I did install a couple other programs as well I installed flatpak, Google Chrome, and discord.
Updates generally just upgrade the version of the software you have. Such updates are relatively infrequent. Even then, because they don’t tend to massively change functionality, I wouldn’t expect that to change anything.
Did you install any Flatpaks? If so, which ones? How did you install Chrome and Discord? It’s entirely possible the issue might lie in there. I don’t use Chrome but I would not be shocked if Google didn’t have some system service running to like aid in startup times.
I did install chrome and discord through flatpak, and it wouldn’t surprise me as well about them sneaking stuff. Only reason I still use chrome is because I just haven’t bothered to switch to something else. I will try removing chrome and see what happens
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