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[3.38+] Frequent app freezes on bleeding edge Ubuntu 25.10  #180729

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Hi,

I've been developing a large flutter app for a few years now. Now starting with flutter version 3.38.0 I'm experiencing frequent freezes of the UI where it's completely unresponsive for many seconds at a time. on a single, specific Linux machine, but not others. Over the years I've upgraded to all new versions and never encountered this before.

This doesn't happen with the same code base on any other platform that flutter supports (I use all of them), nor does it happen on other Linux devices I have, when running the same app package which exhibits the problem on my desktop.

The problem desktop is running an up to date Ubuntu 25.10 with a 6.18 kernel. I suspect there is some sort of interaction between flutter and my system.

Unsure how to debug this further. Help appreciated.

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Frequent freezes of the app

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    P2Important issues not at the top of the work listc: performanceRelates to speed or footprint issues (see "perf:" labels)c: regressionIt was better in the past than it is nowe: OS-version specificAffects only some versions of the relevant operating systemplatform-linuxBuilding on or for Linux specificallyteam-linuxOwned by the Linux platform teamtriaged-linuxTriaged by the Linux platform team

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