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Hey!
First, here is my config:
Framework Laptop 13
AMD Ryzen 7 7840U (Radeon 780M integrated graphics, no discrete graphics)
64GB of RAM, 4GB swap
Samsung 980 Pro SSD (it's fast)
Wayland
GNOME v47
Running Linux 6.11.9-arch1-1
(system is up to date)
I have been having a really bad sporadic issue recently (I have been using this config for a year, the problems started a couple weeks ago). After seemingly random times of use (from 10 minutes to a few hours), the system graphics suddenly become extremely slow (the screen seems to refresh up to once per second). I can still move the cursor around, and the system seems to be otherwise responsive as for example when I spam backspace in GNOME terminal, I get audio feedback with no latency, and the audio in YouTube video remains perfectly smooth. Only restarting the computer has proven to be effective (sleep mode did not reset it, nor did logging out).
When I open GNOME's system monitor while in degraded state, no abnormal usage can be seen: all cores appear mostly idle, I have more than 10GB of RAM still free, swap is not used, disk and network usage are low (mostly no data transfer).
When I run radeontop to see GPU usage, the GPU is also mostly idle. The only suspicious thing is that it displays used VRAM to be more than 100% of the available VRAM (but the available VRAM amount it displays is 10% lower than what is given by `/sys/class/drm/card1/device/mem_info_vram_total
`, and `/sys/class/drm/card1/device/mem_info_vram_used` is lower than that, so I'm not sure how reliable that data point is). Actually I just checked and it already does it outside of degraded mode.
dmesg does not appear to report anything when the problem occurs. Next time it happens I'll try to save a copy of it.
I have noticed that this tends to get triggered when I pause a fullscreen YouTube in Firefox, but I am not sure as the issue is so sporadic and watching videos is a large amount of the time I spend on this machine, it could just be a coincidence.
I'm starting to run out of leads on what could be causing this. My next step is to enable the BIOS config that gives more VRAM (still not sure how this thing works, I enabled it once because not doing so caused video corruptions, it seems like it turned itself off somehow?!), but after that I really have no idea left. Does anyone have any other idea?
Thanks for reading!
Last edited by Moxinilian (2024-11-22 13:31:14)
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I think it's this https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3647
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