Hi everyone,
I’m running into some strange performance issues on my Tumbleweed setup that I’m hoping someone here might have seen before. My primary workflow involves a hybrid environment where I use capcut mac for quick rough cuts on my laptop, but then I move the projects over to my SUSE workstation for archiving and final metadata management via a shared external SSD formatted in ExFAT.
Lately, whenever I try to perform a batch write or move these high-bitrate video files into my local Btrfs-partitioned /home directory, the whole UI starts to stutter. I checked top and I’m seeing massive spikes in %iowait even though I’m using an NVMe drive. It’s almost like the kernel is struggling to handle the file system translation between the Mac-rendered files and the Linux environment.
I have a few related concerns I’m trying to wrap my head around:
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Has anyone noticed if the
mountoptions for ExFAT in the newer kernels need specific tuning to prevent these I/O bottlenecks during sustained high-speed transfers? -
Could the snapshots in Btrfs be causing a massive overhead when I move large 4K files, effectively doubling the write time and locking the GUI?
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Is there a way to prioritize the desktop environment (KDE Plasma) so that it doesn’t become unresponsive during these heavy file operations?
I’ve tried disabling the Baloo indexer and it helped a little, but the system still feels “heavy” until the transfer is completely finished. I really want to keep this cross-platform workflow smooth, but right now the move from my Mac back to SUSE is becoming a major productivity killer. If anyone has tips on optimizing storage throughput for media-heavy workloads, I’d love to hear them!
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