Hi,
I'm new to puppy linux, using a live boot usb drive on a lenovo flex4 laptop. It's on a 16gb multi-boot drive, made with yumi, alongside kodachi. The only customization I've done is increased the swappiness from 5 to 10 and created a swap file of 256MiB, as attempts to increase speed. The problem is, puppy is running really slow. It gets stuck in lagging periods where all apps, not just internet ones, take many seconds to process clicks. It does seem to be the worst when using pale moon and claws mail, but other apps also cause the lagging in the absence of those apps.
CPU usage rarely goes above 5% and is usually lower than 2. RAM usage is likewise low, around 10%. My file system, saved on the usb drive, takes up about half its allotted memory, ~6/14.4GiB. The only thing that seems off is that gatotray shows my io wait spikes whenever I change tabs/instances, close and open apps, especially pale moon.
Any suggestions?
I know that puppy, being small, isn't meant for handling big processes necessarily, but so far I've done very little, mostly just navigations. I think there must be something wrong.