Random freezes with Ryzen [SOLVED]

[Member sybok]

Hi,

my work-station suffers from random freezes, occasional restarts.
1) Confirmed not to be antiX specific, the freezes also occur in Fedora installed in dual boot.
2) BIOS has been recently upgraded (some information on the internet suggested old[er] BIOS being the issue).
3) Expecting the cause likely being HW-related (also suggested by local IT department).
4) Memory (that was free) tested via ‘memtester’ (few loops only); issue not detected.
5) Power supply is the next candidate.

Questions:
Q1) Do you have any other ideas what could be the issue?
Q2) Is there a way how to monitor power-supply from within antiX (best with “logging”, e.g. via a BASH script)?
‘lm-sensors’ does not output the desired info.
This Debian page does not provide straightforward information neither.
I know one can read off temperature from a file contain in (sub-folder of) ‘/sys/[devices/]’ but I did not found anything reasonable there (yet).

inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: jezek Kernel: 5.10.27-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.7 
           Distro: antiX-19.2_x64-full Hannie Schaft 27 March 2020 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B350-PLUS v: Rev X.0x serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 5602 
           date: 07/14/2020 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 1300X bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Zen rev: 1 L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 27947 
           Speed: 1510 MHz min/max: 1550/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1341 2: 1444 3: 1461 4: 1494 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GK208 [GeForce GT 710B] vendor: Micro-Star MSI GK208B driver: nvidia v: 418.197.02 bus ID: 07:00.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 710/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 418.197.02 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.1 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 09:00.3 
           Device-3: Logitech 960 Headset type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 1-9:3 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.27-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 
           bus ID: 03:00.0 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 2.04 TiB used: 932.51 GiB (44.7%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SHSS37A240G size: 223.57 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST2000VN004-2E4164 size: 1.82 TiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 57.42 GiB used: 22.18 GiB (38.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
           ID-2: /home size: 19.22 GiB used: 10.73 GiB (55.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 8.43 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda6 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 50.2 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 226 Uptime: 50m Memory: 7.77 GiB used: 2.19 GiB (28.2%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 
           Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 inxi: 3.0.36

[Moderator caprea]

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There was a problem with ryzen boxes especially freezing during idle.The solution is a certain setting in the bios.
You have to find the ” Power Supply Idle Control ” settings in bios and set it from “auto” to “Typical Current Idle”
Might worse a try.

[Member sybok]

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Hi, I’ve searched the web and found the BIOS issues; in some cases, a simple upgrade has resolved the issue completely.
Sometimes, modifying the setting (not present in all the BIOS versions) was necessary.
Did not look into the BIOS after the upgrade, though.
Will try.

[Member sybok]

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OK, I tried, current kernel is linux-headers-5.10.*-antix.1-amd64-smp and it seems to have worked.
An additional change was performed by local IT department which I did not track and thus I cannot say whether it helped to solve the problem.

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