AMD Ryzen 3rd gen compatibiluty
by gkun from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4Z6RN)
Good morning all,
I built my new machine on Sunday and I'm going to install a system too. It's built on a Ryzen 5 3600 cpu, and rx 590 graphics, MSI b450a pro main board and xmp overclock for running the 16 GB ram (Gskill Ripjaws V) at 3200 MHz.
Yesterday I tested the system on an old USB drive install which runs generic drivers and 4.19.44 kernel (said install works very well with last year model Intel laptop). This is a puppy Linux system (fatdog64), which works very well with a last year model Intel laptop. Using this and other older systems (Ubuntu 14.04 live) I noticed that there are serious hangups with some graphical interface applications, especially web browsers. Firefox will often hang (unresponsive tab while CPU usage was always very low) or not execute commands or take very long times to become responsive (then it will work normally for some inputs, then unpredictably hang again). Same thing happened with chrome while other apps seemed to work normally (libre office). System menus did occasionally slow or hang (especially file manager - ROX, but also the graphical interface). I did not troubleshoot much, but before installing a new system I would like to know: is this normal with older kernel, unoptimized systems on modern Ryzen? Or I should suspect hardware issues? And, more importantly:
Is this the kind of performance issues I may run into if I don't run a Zen optimized kernel?
Regards,
Gian Andrea
I built my new machine on Sunday and I'm going to install a system too. It's built on a Ryzen 5 3600 cpu, and rx 590 graphics, MSI b450a pro main board and xmp overclock for running the 16 GB ram (Gskill Ripjaws V) at 3200 MHz.
Yesterday I tested the system on an old USB drive install which runs generic drivers and 4.19.44 kernel (said install works very well with last year model Intel laptop). This is a puppy Linux system (fatdog64), which works very well with a last year model Intel laptop. Using this and other older systems (Ubuntu 14.04 live) I noticed that there are serious hangups with some graphical interface applications, especially web browsers. Firefox will often hang (unresponsive tab while CPU usage was always very low) or not execute commands or take very long times to become responsive (then it will work normally for some inputs, then unpredictably hang again). Same thing happened with chrome while other apps seemed to work normally (libre office). System menus did occasionally slow or hang (especially file manager - ROX, but also the graphical interface). I did not troubleshoot much, but before installing a new system I would like to know: is this normal with older kernel, unoptimized systems on modern Ryzen? Or I should suspect hardware issues? And, more importantly:
Is this the kind of performance issues I may run into if I don't run a Zen optimized kernel?
Regards,
Gian Andrea