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For some reason I was under the impression this has been fixed. Oh well, I can run X11 for now. Thank you.
Thanks, sorry it took me a while to reply. The problem seems to have gone away. No idea why, but it is performing normally now. To be clear, I have not updated that machine since I discovered this problem. This machine does not see daily use, it is running all the time but I only interface with it once in a while. I downloaded the nomachine package from the nomachine website and installed it with dpkg. I made sure it was up to date and running the same version as all the other machines in my house are running, and I only used packages in the MX Linux repos outside of NoMachine. So I am still lost on what was causing this and why it seems to be remedied now. However, I have a new problem, on a different machine, that seems to be stemming from switching to KDE Plasma 6 w/ Wayland. So I guess I will post about that if I cannot find a solution that works.
Please see the attached image, everything is disabled and I still have the exact same problem.
https://freeimage.host/i/dlru2at
Local activity on the machine is completely normal. It is an old machine with an i5 3570k and 16GB of DDR3 but that is plenty for what I use it for, and performance is snappy. It boots and runs from a SATA SSD and has several mechanical drives for storage. I am using the integrated graphics because I do not need a GPU, and it has served my purpose adequately for years now and on every other distribution I have used. I installed Arch on an external SSD and loaded up NoMachine and do not have this issue. So I am convinced at this point it is either something in MX Linux or NoMachine that is not playing nice with the other.
Connecting to another machine through NX from this machine is totally normal like any other machine. Performance is as expected.
Please see the link for a screenshot of htop I made while connected remotely using NX to the machine.
https://freeimage.host/i/dcXTuRI
The only applications really running are Deluge and Hexchat…besides the Plex server services. As you can see, resource usage is very low and when interfacing directly with the machine it is entirely normal and snappy.
I have tried rebooting and connecting without any applications running and get the same result. I opened up htop of the machine locally and then connected using NX to watch the system processes, nothing surging or spiking to explain the slowness over about 20 minutes, but the performance is still the same.
I update my machine every couple days through the package manager, and I update No Machine when the client tells me there’s an update available.
The Linux host is not headless, it has a physical display attached as stated in my original post. I use this display sometimes with a the attached keyboard and mouse but I largely rely on remote connection for most of this systems usage.