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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>
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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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