Crazy long i3 booting up time after recent merge

[kiprasmel]

I've just finished merging the latest changes - everything seems fine.

Except that now, once I log in, I just get an empty i3 screen with my background image, and have to wait around 2 minutes for everything to start working - the statusbar to show up, to get the keyboard shortcuts do anything etc.

This started happening just now, right after finishing my latest merge and rebooting.

If I checkout my dotfiles to the latest commit before merging and re-login - the issue disappears.

Similarly - switching back to the latest changes + re-logging in still works fine, but after rebooting, the issue comes back.

Has anyone here possibly encountered something like this and maybe could help me out?

Thanks!

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P.S.

Once I launch st, sometimes it takes 5x the time, like instead of the normal 50ms, it takes 250ms. Thus it might relate to this issue, since it started happening at the same time.

Could the $ZDOTDIR have any impact here? Previously I just didn't have it & my .zshrc was located in $HOME.

Edit:

• Disabling $ZDOTDIR / removing ~/.config/zsh/.zshrc or ~/.config/aliasrc did not help.

• I've tried bisecting, but since the i3 configs weren't always available, I was not able to test if the issue persists.

git bisect start HEAD 2429f7606303b4c2fd27957b2f0ee3c1018a0575

# test if the issue still persists
git bisect good|bad
# repeat

git bisect reset # once done

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Edit: After the recent fixes with colorful emojis regarding st / dmenu (xorg), updating to the even more latest changes would be extremely useful.

[Daja177]

@sarpik I'm not surprised you're experiencing issues after the merge. The merge 014c91897dc8f00fa638289361e2453b7addd1c4 has a huge amount of changes that will definitely conflict with your current setup if you don't make a lot of manual changes, such as switching from pulseaudio to alsa and a lot more.

I'd recommend that you revert the merge if you're still experiencing these slowdowns, and instead go through the changes made on Luke's branch and manually add the changes you want.

[kiprasmel]

@Daja177 hey there, thanks for your input!

oh boy, yes it indeed does have lots of changes.

TL;DR:

Starting all over again - naaah. It might even be worse, because I might miss something important etc., but I don't mind making more manual changes if they'd help solve my current situation with the master branch.

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I've kept the merge at master, but jumped back at the pre-merge commit, created the current branch & am currently using + committing new changes to it.

Going through Luke's changes 1 by 1 is kinda too much effort for what I'd get - there were about 200 commits from Luke, and 300+ from me.

The merge itself, obviously, had lots of conflicts, and I don't really want to re-do the same stuff again:D (and if cherry-picking / rebasing - even more work!).

I thought that maybe there was some obvious solution or a fix that I wasn't aware of that would help me solve the issue, but so far, nothing has helped.

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Edit: Not completely sure, but pretty confident that in the time, Luke was jumping between arch & void, and as I've mentioned above - even git bisecting didn't bring much help, thus one more reason to not pick commits 1 by 1..

[Daja177]

When I suggested adding the changes manually I didn't necessarily mean picking the specific commits, but I see why you'd want to do that haha

Looking through all of the changes it seems most are simply bloat cleanup, reformatting, reorganization etc. The most important changes I find is the addition of config files for lf, ranger, bspwm and zsh, along with the replacement of pulseaudio commands to alsa ones in scripts and config files.

Unfortunately I'm unable to pinpoint whatever is causing the slowdowns even after looking through it several times (although I wouldn't be surprised if it was more than one factor), but it doesn't seem like you're missing out on anything special by sticking to the current branch. But if you want to add Luke's lf, ranger, bspwm or zsh config files you should easily be able to find the correct commits to merge.

[vladdoster]

You could try this, what do you think @Daja177 ?

exec i3 -V >> ~/i3log-$(date +'%F-%k-%M-%S') 2>&1

[kiprasmel]

@Daja177 lol Yeah I haven't found any "strong" changes per se.

Though I would really appreciate having them - I currently have some issues with gnupg / gpg keys not being automatically unlocked (something to do with the .password-store, keyrings etc., it's a rabbit hole) and lots of other minor nit pics that were solved after I merged in the changes. (sadly, as mentioned - I can't use them - once I reboot, the start-up times are atrocious).

I feel like it's either all or nothing at this point - I'm fine without the minor changes, but I would really like having 'em all!:D

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@vladdoster hey there, thanks. Also, I think you meant to use %H instead of %k, since %k adds a space & messes the thing up:D

exec i3 -V >> ~/i3log-$(date +'%F-%H-%M-%S') 2>&1

I've previously tried git bisecting while trying to measure the start-up times for i3. I failed, because on some commits, i3 was not even installed (or it wasn't in the $PATH) - either way, I didn't knew how to reach i3, and thus couldn't test out & find the broken commit. I think I should retry doing this to see if I can get i3 somehow & find the broken commit.

Also, if the start-up time is bad, you don't need a script to measure it - it's very, very obvious (compare 2 seconds to ~ 3-4 minutes:D)

[vladdoster]

@sarpik no, I mean %k. Which gives the hour but space padded. Same as %_H. Whatever floats your boat.

[kiprasmel]

@vladdoster ah I thought it was a mistake since the added space makes is not picked up once you pipe the output of exec i3 -V, thus piping it to the same file every time. Ah, I just noticed that you're using >> so I assume you meant to append to it - all cool, just don't know why you'd have the -%M-%S' after %k since it doesn't get picked up. I'm just curious:D & thanks either way

[vladdoster]

@sarpik yes, the intended use is to create a single log file. I dont see what you mean by it not being picked up? Seems right to me... it is January 30th, 2020 at 17:52:38? Am I missing something?

[kiprasmel]

@vladdoster yeah I understand it now - you meant to echo the time into the file itself, not create a separate file every time. Thanks.

Anyhow, any other ideas to solve the issue?

[vladdoster]

@sarpik exactly!

I'd probably run the logging and try to see if there are any big time chunks that you can nail down to a program. Other than that, I am just as lost :(.

[kiprasmel]

@vladdoster alright cool, thanks for your input:)

[LukeSmithxyz]

I don't know if you're still trying to figure this out, but might it have been solved by https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice/pull/446?

[kiprasmel]

@LukeSmithxyz

I don't know if you're still trying to figure this out, but might it have been solved by #446?

Last time I checked, I still had issues. Thanks for linking #446 - will try out soon & report back here!

[kiprasmel]

Aight so I've been running the new setup for a few weeks.

The boot-up time is now acceptable - only a few seconds.

But the overall laggy-ness is still way worse, compared to the setup without latest changes from here. I'm sadly forced to stick to the old setup, because everything takes just too much time & it's too annoying, sadly:/

[LukeSmithxyz]

What exactly is "laggy?" Opening windows or something? I'm curious if anyone else is having these problems or if they're specific to your machine.

[kiprasmel]

@LukeSmithxyz

What exactly is "laggy?"

Launching apps, such as st, dmenu, chrome, vscode, even nvim from st - all of them take more time than usual & it's slowing down my workflow. zsh too - it starts up pretty slow, even though there aren't any changes introduced when comparing the setups.

It might be specific to my machine, since on my laptop I have windows, and I dual-boot arch via my USB (up to 420 MB/s read, 380 MB/s write) - it's expected that the I/O speeds are not as high as, say, an SSD, but once again - previously I didn't have any issues and everything was fast enough, but after the latest changes - not anymore.

¯\(ツ)/¯

[vladdoster]

@sarpik Have you installed the Intel microcode?

[kiprasmel]

@vladdoster nope, at least not explicitly. Looking it up right now. Has it anything to do with performance? I only see the security patches, which're important, but is there anything else I need to know?

[kiprasmel]

@vladdoster Aight I've installed the updates, including Intel microcode. After testing the new arch setup - still no improvements, sadly:/

[LukeSmithxyz]

I mean could you just give us a screenshot of htop or some other system monitor?

Are you making fresh installs or are you updating a preexisting user/machine?

[vladdoster]

@LukeSmithxyz yeah we've been shooting in the dark here. Good idea

[kiprasmel]

Sure. Just tell me what ya'll need:D

First I ran everything with my normal setup - the one which works relatively fine. Then rebooted and did the same with the slower / laggy setup - it was noticeably slower, as expected.

Both times, I ran ps aux, ps auxf and htop -d 100000000000 to avoid any updates. I ran it right after rebooting & waiting a bit. In htop, I noticed a loooot of duplicates and/or similar processes - is this normal? And there's a lot of them..

There was a lot of stuff, so I just threw everything into google drive here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=11Zzv__Fgv5ZZk3gajAps3I4DmXbOFmaD

Anything else I can help with?

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Edit:

The normal setup was at this point (branch current): https://github.com/sarpik/voidrice/tree/ba872a04ea221a5e5a319b2811adb766db64703f

And the laggy one was here (branch master): https://github.com/sarpik/voidrice/tree/2a0e7c1001de04f61b68735e7b910150f5df7dd1

[kiprasmel]

@LukeSmithxyz

Are you making fresh installs or are you updating a preexisting user/machine?

I'm not doing anything with the laptop, which runs windows. I have a flash USB drive, and inside it I have arch linux installed. I have not re-installed arch - I'm doing everything inside the same USB, with the same installation of arch.

I'm switching between the two setups by simply checking out a different branch in git and rebooting.

[vladdoster]

Mhm... I've personally never heard of arch installed on a USB drive. So I'm not of much help.

@sarpik Why do you have everything commented out in .Xprofile? Are you sure the dbus thing is t causing issues?

[vladdoster]

You might also try to do a recursive diff to see what the differences are? Clone each branch into a seperate folder and the pass both to diff -r.

[vladdoster]

#!/bin/bash
# Skip files in $1 which are symlinks
for f in `find $1/* ! -type l`
do
    # Suppress details of differences
    diff -rq $f $2/${f##*/}
done

[kiprasmel]

@sarpik Why do you have everything commented out in .Xprofile?

I have everything commented out in the laggy setup, because if I don't - instead of a laggy one, it becomes completely unusable - it would take 3+ minutes to just load i3. I haven't checked which part of the .Xprofile would cause the huge spike in load time though.

Are you sure the dbus thing is t causing issues?

From git blame, I see that the dbus thing was introduced not by me, but by Luke:

06d379ce (Luke Smith        2020-02-09 07:26:32 -0500  6) # Fix Gnome Apps Slow  Start due to failing services
06d379ce (Luke Smith        2020-02-09 07:26:32 -0500  7) # Add this when you include flatpak in your system
06d379ce (Luke Smith        2020-02-09 07:26:32 -0500  8) dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY XAUTHORITY

in the current setup (not laggy), I do not have it - it might be a problem - I'll check soon, but I doubt it.

You might also try to do a recursive diff to see what the differences are? Clone each branch into a seperate folder and the pass both to diff -r.

I tried doing this with the script you provided like so:

$ ./diffit voidrice-master-laggy voidrice-current-okay

but it somehow only outputs this:

Files voidrice-master-laggy/README.md and voidrice-current-okay/README.md differ

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I then tried running this:

diff -rq voidrice-master-laggy voidrice-current-okay

and got

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I'm pretty sure that the Only in stuff can be ignored since Luke changed up a few folders & the files exist, but in a different location.

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Anything else I can help with?

[kiprasmel]

Are you sure the dbus thing is t causing issues?

From git blame, I see that the dbus thing was introduced not by me, but by Luke:

06d379ce (Luke Smith        2020-02-09 07:26:32 -0500  6) # Fix Gnome Apps Slow  Start due to failing services
06d379ce (Luke Smith        2020-02-09 07:26:32 -0500  7) # Add this when you include flatpak in your system
06d379ce (Luke Smith        2020-02-09 07:26:32 -0500  8) dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY XAUTHORITY

in the current setup (not laggy), I do not have it - it might be a problem - I'll check soon, but I doubt it.

Aight, I've tried

1. disabling the dbus thing from .Xprofile & reboot - it didn't help.
2. enabling everything in .Xprofile & reboot - that didn't help either, sadly.

In both cases, I launched vscode (electron app) - in the current (normal) setup, it takes about ~4 seconds to load. With the laggy setup and both cases I tested right now - it took about 1-2 minutes to load, and in the meantime arch was completely unresponsive - I couldn't type etc...

[kiprasmel]

But now I just remembered that I've yet another USB available - I could try installing my own setup there, and checking if the issue persists.

Obviously there could be some things missing that wouldn't be included in the setup, like systemd services etc., but it's still worth a try I think. How do I install arch again? XD (I obviously know how to; though I remember Luke saying that if you've got in installed - could can do it again quicker - I'll check arch wiki)

[kiprasmel]

Hello there again, so I've updated once again to the latest changes from upstream (Luke's repo (this one)) and oh my god everything works fine again!!

I have no clue what fixed this exactly, but somehow everything's fine now 🤩

holy shit you guys made the colorful icons work by default in the terminal that's amazing

The only thing that was causing issues was that zsh took 500ms instead of 50ms to boot up. I fixed it by doing this:

$ZDOTDIR/.zshrc:

-autoload -U compinit && compinit

(I still have autoload -Uz compinit)

and everything's working perfectly now!

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pretty sure we can close now? Unless ya'll wanna debug something - I can try helping if anything's needed from me:D

P.S. You can compare the diff here: https://github.com/sarpik/voidrice/compare/pre-merge-5...sarpik:merge-5

[kiprasmel]

Other than that, I'm saying a big "thank you!" to both @LukeSmithxyz & @vladdoster - for your help & everything else - thanks guys!