Waiting for bufdaemon

[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?
It might be not enough, which means that additionally latest BIOS needs
to be flushed.