Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:56:57 +0100 From: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de> To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Waiting for bufdaemon Message-ID: <d25a7608-9e61-0ece-9500-d4a80e79068e@gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <YAgjOYdVG%2BN4lU0n@kib.kiev.ua> References: <556d40b8-92d7-303e-7d87-ea496d0ca733@FreeBSD.org> <YAG4g7dJbRWM7act@kib.kiev.ua> <ed52f8c1-5f43-b71e-1d56-625e2e064a7e@gwdg.de> <9ae3cc65-193a-39c3-4067-0d42e9f634b0@gwdg.de> <YAO9/cxnbGv5u3Bg@kib.kiev.ua> <adb9d42c-d855-1edf-a57c-9b16aad481b7@gwdg.de> <YAQINMoEi7ysBSD5@kib.kiev.ua> <1d675d77-8bdb-c285-ffa2-28330b839734@alvermark.net> <YAgDhJ9/YX29kH2a@kib.kiev.ua> <60599f75-7206-9269-ac0c-934f8f31ae26@gwdg.de> <YAgjOYdVG%2BN4lU0n@kib.kiev.ua>
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Am 20.01.21 um 13:34 schrieb Konstantin Belousov: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 01:17:51PM +0100, Rainer Hurling wrote: >> Am 20.01.21 um 11:18 schrieb Konstantin Belousov: >>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:02:21AM +0100, Jakob Alvermark wrote: >>>> This patch hides the problem for me. The system seems to work better now. >>>> >>>> No waiting on reboot, and the webcam works better. >>> I am curious what do you mean by the above reference to webcam. >>> Can you explain it with more details, even if only the impressions? >> >> I should mention, that beside the already discussed timing problem with >> bufdaemon, I also have problems with several apps: >> >> >> After a high system load, several programs only react very slowly (e.g. >> Firefox). Several dockable apps from WindowMaker, but also e.g. conky do >> not update their windows anymore, they freeze. After some time, Firefox >> updates its screen content only after switching back from another window ... >> >> When such frozen programs are killed and restarted, they run normally >> again for an indefinite time before they freeze again. >> >> These symptoms completely disappeared, after I patched the Ryzen box as >> suggested on 01/17: > > Do you load latest microcode update from devcpu-data? Yes, sysutils/devcpu-data is installed and the following to lines are in /boot/loader.conf cpu_microcode_load="YES" cpu_microcode_name="/boot/firmware/intel-ucode.bin" But isn't this just for Intel (i387 and amd64), not AMD cpus? > It might be not enough, which means that additionally latest BIOS needs > to be flushed. > I am running latest Firmware F31 on a "Gigabyte\ Aorus\ X570\ Elite" mainboard.
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