[Solved] Nautilus very slow since new installation of Buster

[Azrael]

Hi guys,

I recently did a new install of Debian Buster, except reusing the /home partition, because I got a new motherboard+ram (i5-9400F/DDR4 2666Mhz from the old i5-2500k/DDR3 1333Mhz).

I notice when I copy files, save files from Chromium/Firefox, or open files. There's some significant lag for some reason, no issues previously on Debian Stretch.

I'm running
i5-9400F
16GB RAM
8GB Swap
2TB Toshiba 7200rpm on EXT4 for both root and home partitions with a 500MB FAT Boot/EFI
Nvidia GTX950 with nonfree Nvidia Drivers
Debian Buster amd64 with Gnome 3.30.2 (wayland disappeared after a few days of use for some reason, can't find it in the login).

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time ls

Gives output for the home directory as:

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real	0m0.004s
user	0m0.001s
sys	0m0.004s

I did some googling and I deleted cache files (it was a few gigabytes in size) of the tracker and it helps slightly but I feel there's probably something I missed.

Any ideas?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Do you still have this problem if you test with a new user and a clean ${HOME}?

wayland disappeared after a few days of use for some reason, can't find it in the login

Hmm, can we see

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apt policy

[4D696B65]

Do you still have this problem if you test with a new user and a clean ${HOME}?

Sometimes old dot configs can cause problems.

[Azrael]

Do you still have this problem if you test with a new user and a clean ${HOME}?

wayland disappeared after a few days of use for some reason, can't find it in the login

Hmm, can we see

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apt policy

Here's the output:

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Package files:
 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     release a=now
 500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates/main amd64 Packages
     release v=10,o=Debian,a=stable,n=buster,l=Debian-Security,c=main,b=amd64
     origin security.debian.org
 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/contrib amd64 Packages
     release v=10.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=buster,l=Debian,c=contrib,b=amd64
     origin deb.debian.org
 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/non-free amd64 Packages
     release v=10.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=buster,l=Debian,c=non-free,b=amd64
     origin deb.debian.org
 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
     release v=10.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=buster,l=Debian,c=main,b=amd64
     origin deb.debian.org
Pinned packages:

Do you still have this problem if you test with a new user and a clean ${HOME}?

Sometimes old dot configs can cause problems.

Let me try and get back to you.

[Azrael]

Yes it does.

Oh man, this is embarrassing.

I decided to open syslog and tried reproducing it.

I got this:

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gnome-shell[16533]: Error adding children to desktop: Not enough place at monitor 0

I disabled the extension, it everything became speedy again.

I guess, if I want to use the desktop again, I'll have to clean it up.

My bad.