Hi all! I am a dummy with Linux at this moment, so I don’t know how to explain it the best. I have sudden moments (2 so far, weeks apart) where the lag is incredible under even low load (4gb/32gb ram and 11% cpu usage), it will take about 5-10 seconds for the computer to even register I am moving the mouse. What could cause this? Is it a virus or just a quirk with running Linux? I haven’t downloaded any bad programs, just always worried. Thanks
Did you find a solution for your problem?
I have the same issue, but my lag is about 1-2 seconds. Everything lags, the mouse, video, audio, microphone and software. It happens about once a week and I can’t figure out why. Even if I close all applications it continues and only goes back to normal after a reboot.
System monitor shows some CPU activity in the resource tab, but in processes it is basically 0%.
I managed to pull up journalctl -f while the lag was happening, and it is the same error that other people have encountered. Something with the GPU, I am not smart enough to understand what’s going on
Thank you, that seems to be the exact issue I have. Good to know I’m not the only one.
On my Framework 13 with the base Ryzen spec, I had bad (and uneven) mouse pointer skipping/stuttering/lagging under light load on a clean Fedora 41 installation. After some research, I fixed it with the following incantation (using grubby to add a kernel option):
$ grubby --args="amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x12" --update-kernel=ALL
I gather that this kernel option disables a display power saving feature on the AMD iGPU that currently doesn’t work properly on Linux (or, at least, this distro). It completely resolved my issues and IMO the Framework guide authors should include it in the guides for the Ryzen/Fedora combination.
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