Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:54:35 +0100 From: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de> To: Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Waiting for bufdaemon Message-ID: <d39cd13a-e36e-8c0c-c320-aaf7be3f5d53@gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <YAhBVL6cL0BHB8Dp@raichu> References: <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> <d25a7608-9e61-0ece-9500-d4a80e79068e@gwdg.de> <YAgsO3AoB5PFhzDq@kib.kiev.ua> <YAhBVL6cL0BHB8Dp@raichu>
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Am 20.01.21 um 15:42 schrieb Mark Johnston: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 03:12:27PM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 01:56:57PM +0100, Rainer Hurling wrote: >>> 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? >> You need microcode_update_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf for late microcode >> update. >> >> I think that early boot update should work on AMD, bit for this you need to >> select and put right blob. It is enough to load late to answer my question. > > The early microcode loader still doesn't support AMD. I did not do it > for lack of a test system at the time. > Thanks for the info. So for now, I can remove microcode_update_enable="YES" in /boot/loader.conf ... Is there anything, I can test for you (without having skills in the area ;) )?
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