I have a Ryzen 3 1300X at the moment and it’s always had this soft lock freezing bug on Linux. I used to dual-boot Windows on this machine and Windows never had the same problem, so I think it is an issue with the Linux kernel (I’ve also replaced nearly every bit of hardware that I originally built the PC with, except for the CPU and motherboard, so it probably is an issue the kernel has with my CPU, or possibly the motherboard firmware).
I’ve changed the kernel parameters as suggested by the Arch Wiki. The bug is pretty inconsistent about happening so only time will tell if this solves the issue. But if it doesn’t solve the issue, I’d honestly consider just getting a new CPU that doesn’t have this issue, as completely freezing up, unable to get to a tty or anything, and only being able to power off by physically holding down the power button, is a pretty major issue, even if it only happens sometimes.
So if I do get a new CPU, or maybe just for when I’m next buying a CPU for reasons unrelated to this bug (been considering an upgrade to something that’s better for compiling anyway), are there any good options out there? Intel is investing $25 billion into Israel and the BNC has called for “divestment and exclusion” from it (it’s not officially on the BDS consumer boycott list, but I’m still very much not comfortable buying from Intel). But the Arch Wiki article seems to suggest this bug is applicable to Ryzen CPUs in general, or at least it never specifies a particular model or range of models. So maybe I’m limited to non-Ryzen AMD CPUs?
I’m guessing this is one of the situations where two companies have a complete duopoly over the market and there isn’t an all-round good solution, but thought I’d ask in case anyone had some useful input.
I have a system with a Ryzen 1700 with the same issue and have found the only reliable way to run it is by installing and enabling the disable-c6-systemd package from the AUR. The other fixes provided in the wiki article you linked are correct but aren’t sufficient on my system, the CPU keeps reenabling the C6 state on its own and the disable-c6-systemd package works to counter that. The reason it works on Windows is they’ve disabled the C6 state by default for the CPU.
Ah, thanks. I’m using runit not systemd (although this was happening on systemd when I was on systemd too) but I saw
amd-disable-c6in the AUR so I’ve installed that now, fingers crossed it works (the fixes in the Arch Wiki article haven’t fixed it for me, it just happened again rip)Edit: nvm, looks like that package is a systemd service
The package is just a systemd unit to run the command
python zenstates --c6-disableso if you install the zenstates-git package and get runit to run that command at startup it would be equivalent.Thank you!!
Edit: Tried running that, I’m getting the error that
/dev/cpu/0/msrdoesn’t exist.dev/cpudoesn’t seem to exist at all on my machine. HmEdit 2: You need to run
sudo modprobe msr. All good now :)
This is amazing to find out now after 7 years:) I actually adjusted voltage manually on my Ryzen R5 1600, and it became 100% reliable, apparently the fix you mention prevent voltage below 1v at idle. I wondered why my CPU wasn’t reliable unless I made manual OC with some voltage tweaks?
I never looked it up, because my OC solved the issue, but I always thought it was a bit weird.
What is BDS?
Modern Ryzen are fine on Linux. Not sure where they’re declaring it happens for “all Ryzen” from.
What motherboard do you have? Also what happens exactly when the lock-ups happen? Have you ever been playing audio when the lock-ups happen and does it loop or stop or keep playing?
I recently had to “fix” (workaround) a similar issue in the OpenBSD kernel with a specific hardware peripheral on my PC (running a 2nd-gen Ryzen), the High Definition Audio controller. For whatever reason (and only when I was running OpenBSD) interrupts from the HDA controller (to let the CPU know to refill audio buffers) would just randomly stop making it to the CPU and audio would loop for a few seconds and then shut off. I spent a long time trying to figure out what causes it and reading Linux driver code but I couldn’t find a cause or why only OpenBSD would trigger it. I ended up having to write kind of a hacky polling mode into the HDA driver. My only guess is some of these AMD-chipset-having motherboards have faulty interrupt controllers.
Maybe there is a similar issue with your system and timer interrupts aren’t making it to your CPU or something. But I’m not really an expert on PC architecture and idek if it even works like that on PCs lol
Sorry for so many questions but do you also have any kernel logs available from when this happens?
Also what happens exactly when the lock-ups happen?
Screen is frozen, doesn’t respond to keyboard or mouse input, including unable to switch to a tty or kill the graphical session (I have a keybind to exit my Wayland compositor, which I launch from the tty, so when I use the keybind it sends me to the tty—that is, if my computer isn’t locked up lol).
I don’t remember if this has ever happened with audio playing, idk what happens to audio if it happens with audio playing.
I think I did post kernel logs to a forum way back in the day when I first got this PC and started having this issue, to no avail—at this point I’d rather just get a new CPU and save the headache and stress, especially since this is a known issue with Ryzens
I see. Our motherboards have different chipsets (I have an X570 in mine). It probably has nothing to do with my issue…
Hoping those kernel parameters fix it. I wish I could help further. PCs are just a bottomless, mostly undocumented rabbithole :(
Afraid the kernel params didn’t fix it. Have invested in a newer Ryzen cpu as people are saying that the first gen ones were particularly buggy so I’m hoping it’s fixed in the newer ones.
Not 100% sure if it is the same issue as you linked to, but I have an early Ryzen 7 1700 that has a hardware error (google “ryzen performance marginality” to find info about it) causing it not to work properly with linux. I never bothered to RMA my CPU. I’ve made it kinda work anyways, by disabling cool and quiet or whatever it is called, and set a fixed overclock to compensate for the lack of turbo after that. The idea is that the CPU should always run at a fixed clock speed instead of clocking down to save power when idle. Haven’t had any issues with this CPU for a while now after I did that.
BTW I upgraded my desktop with a 3900x and put the 1700 in a server. Never had any issues with the 3900x on linux, so getting a newer generation ryzen for you PC second hand or something might just fix it as well.
While it probably isn’t the issue for you, I have once been chasing a hard freeze that was caused by some APM setting in the BIOS. If you are on AMD right now you could check it.
It was very weird, setting it to automatic would cause random freezes. Setting it to on or off would both work just fine. Somehow the automatic setting gave me issues.
Just a random thing for you to check I guess.
I think if you start with political positions of bigtech companies…
Just buy used
This is pointless. Your tax dollars are doing MUCH more for Israel than what products you buy. Boycotts are a capitalist distraction from the real systemic issues.
Buhruh! Why not just stop voting since “your vote is only a drop in the ocean” or “it only legitimises a broken system”?
Every action towards progress counts. It’s better than nothing, which is what people do if you ask them to change the world in one go. Change is gradual, change is slow, change can be achieved by the small actions of many. Not everybody has the time to “tackle the systemic issues” you perceive to be true nor does everybody agree that those are the core issues.
Belittling action, no matter how small, is discouraging and counterproductive.
Voting is good because elections can be won by a few votes and ARE won by a few votes consistently. The tiny fraction off the top of your CPU purchase that might end up possibly supporting Israel is doing nothing compared to the hundreds of millions that, may I remind you, you cannot opt out of sending to Israel.
Changing what products you consoom is literally feel-good liberal shit to make you feel like you’re doing something. Talking to representatives and protesting is way more effective, in the sense that one of them does nothing and the other actually does something.
Changing what products you consoom is literally feel-good liberal shit to make you feel like you’re doing something.
This is why big companies continue making money, influencing politics, and can have more profits than some countries have budgets. Then people like you turn around and say “ermagerd, companies are destroying the world” with an iPhone in one hand and a venti in the other while wearing fast fashion. But at least you voted, amirite?
You are severely overestimating the amount of people who, to put it the shortest way I can think of rn, are not NPCs.
Yes, what you say could be true in a perfect world where everybody or even a majority of people participate in boycotts. I still believe it’s a distraction from capitalism’s structural problems but they could still be effective that way. The difference is that the world we live in is not that world and therefore small-scale boycotts like this do basically nothing. The average person does not care what companies support Israel. Also a lot of those lists are literally wrong but that’s a different issue. Also also, the government STILL sends a SHITTON of money to Israel whether you personally support it or not.
What if you live in a country that doesn’t send any money to Israel? Also, boycotts do work.
This smells of reductionist “no ethical consumption under capitalism” ideology.
That just means living in capitalism doesn’t exempt you from criticising the system, not that you can’t and shouldn’t use the mechanism of capitalism to help make life difficult for fascists.
It might not “fix” the problems but it sure as hell is making Israel pay while our national governments do fuck all.
Not when there’s an organised boycott, called for by Palestinians. You can do multiple things at once. Not buying something takes 0 hours of your time lol
Not buying something takes 0 hours of your time lol
It takes so little time you needed to make a post to ask for help lol
Making a post takes a few mins of time. Not boycotting is taking so little of your time that you needed to make 2 comments about it, wow
Making a post takes a minute. Responses will take less than a minute. They were crowdsourcing specific and quite niche knowledge. In that time between making the post and reading them after a wait OP was able to do literally anything else instead of searching and trying to pull out decent looking CPUs they couldn’t guarantee. If you were buying any CPU you would hopefully look for reviews or comparisons, BDS or not, to inform you.
Omg such a waste of time that could have been spent scrolling through memes instead of trying to do the right thing.
His point wasn’t to find a CPU, it was to make a political post in a tech community.
I agree. We need more of these!
Holding out for the Oasis, myself. Cores licensed from SiFive and compliant even with the 1.0 rev of the Vector Extension (SG2380).
Did you pre-order?
Print your own
…in 10 years
Or use any of these
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/25/china_approved_tech_list/
Well, that brings to light why I had an issue with my 3900x. Couldn’t find it on google to save my life, but then it shows up randomly here, lol.
If it means anything, my 7800x3D doesn’t have that bug. I’ve been using it now for about 3 months without issue. So maybe the rest of the 7000 series is good to go?
EDIT: I’d also like to mention that I’m heavily biased against Intel processors for that long line of severe security issues that they had on their processors a few years ago. I don’t trust them at all.
Please keep politics out of here
For what its worth I agree with you. From my experience the idea of not being political is unpopular with lemmings
Attempting to avoid politics is itself a political stance. Enjoy your paradox, fellow lemming.
Yeah, there’s nothing political about free software! Why should we have to read about people’s liberatory ideas in the linux community?
It’s absurd I tell you!
Ohhh, I the title is just confusing. I thought it meant companies that support Israel. Nevermind, but companies that don’t are sadly rare.
I know you are joking but I actually agree with your statement
That’s bad.
That’s good
you generally don’t want to hold a position being satirized, but if you feel the need, go off: how is there nothing political about free software?
RK3588 is used in many Linux devices, but I’m not sure if Rockchip is in the BDS list. I don’t know which factory was RK3588 from.
Here I was hoping we would get a breakdown on the companies making ARM processors … Still an informative comments section.
I’ve never had any issues with Ryzen, but I never had first gen. If you don’t want Ryzen, and Intel is unethical, maybe you could try a Epyc /s?
Buying used Intel stuff might also be an option. No more money would go to Intel, and using used stuff is good on the e-waste front.
