Hi,
Can someone with more experience help point me in the right direction. I have managed to get everything running really well with steam and a number of games. But after about 1 hour of a game being open I start to get game break stutter. I posted here because I believe this problem to be system as my games are running amazingly. Thanks to the help of chatgpt, But I feel like I have hit a brick wall.
I think I have found the problem but unsure on how to fix it. Here is a screen shot of what I believe is the clue as to what might be happening. I am new to all of this and I think the kernel is basically reacting to a high number or interrupts. I believe the kernel it just trying to prevent a unstable condition.
Everything is upto date. I have doom 3 running on vulken and elder scrolls online also running well. But other games do the same thing after about 40mins of gameplay. Its not overheating or power management problem or a memory leak.
system information:
$ inxi -zv8
System:
Kernel: 6.12.4-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.12-x86_64
root=UUID=f806604e-3076-43c2-ab49-1bb7587e42da rw quiet splash apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.43 wm: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0
with: xfce4-panel tools: xfce4-screensaver dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0
Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z77X-UD3H serial: N/A
uuid: 032b0290-0434-0551-c706-530700080009 UEFI: American Megatrends v: F18
date: 10/24/2012
Battery:
Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
System RAM: total: 12 GiB available: 11.64 GiB used: 7.14 GiB (61.4%)
Array-1: capacity: 32 GiB slots: 4 modules: 4 EC: None
max-module-size: 8 GiB note: est.
Device-1: ChannelB-DIMM1 type: DDR3 detail: synchronous size: 4 GiB
speed: 1600 MT/s volts: N/A width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
manufacturer: Corsair part-no: CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8 serial: N/A
Device-2: ChannelA-DIMM1 type: DDR3 detail: synchronous size: 2 GiB
speed: 1600 MT/s volts: N/A width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
manufacturer: Corsair part-no: CMX6GX3M3A1600C9 serial: N/A
Device-3: ChannelB-DIMM0 type: DDR3 detail: synchronous size: 4 GiB
speed: 1600 MT/s volts: N/A width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
manufacturer: Corsair part-no: CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8 serial: N/A
Device-4: ChannelA-DIMM0 type: DDR3 detail: synchronous size: 2 GiB
speed: 1600 MT/s volts: N/A width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
manufacturer: Corsair part-no: CMX6GX3M3A1600C9 serial: N/A
PCI Slots:
Slot: 0 type: PCIe status: in use info: J6B2 length: long volts: 3.3
bus-ID: 00:02.0
Slot: 1 type: PCIe status: in use info: J6B1 length: short volts: 3.3
bus-ID: 00:1c.0
Slot: 2 type: PCIe status: in use info: J6D1 length: short volts: 3.3
bus-ID: 00:01.0 children: 1: 01:00.0 class-ID: 0300 type: display 2: 01:00.1
class-ID: 0403 type: audio
Slot: 3 type: PCIe status: in use info: J7B1 length: short volts: 3.3
bus-ID: 00:03.0
Slot: 4 type: PCIe status: in use info: J8B4 length: short volts: 3.3
bus-ID: 00:1c.7 children: 1: 07:00.0 class-ID: 0106 type: mass-storage
Slot: 6 type: PCI status: in use info: J8B3 length: short volts: 3.3
bus-ID: 14:1e.0
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-3770 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge
gen: core 3 level: v2 built: 2012-15 process: Intel 22nm family: 6
model-id: 0x3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 0x21
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 4 cores: 4 threads: 8 tpc: 2
smt: enabled cache: L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2101 min/max: 1600/4100 base/boost: 4100/7000 scaling:
driver: intel_cpufreq governor: performance volts: 1.2 V ext-clock: 100 MHz
cores: 1: 2101 2: 2101 3: 2101 4: 2101 5: 2101 6: 2101 7: 2101 8: 2101
bogomips: 54472
Flags: acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx bts clflush cmov
constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb
erms est f16c flush_l1d fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida lahf_lm lm mca
mce md_clear mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid
pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdtscp
rep_good sep smep smx ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall
tm tm2 tsc tsc_deadline_timer vme x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW;
STIBP: conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not
affected
Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX
470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] vendor: PC Partner / Sapphire
driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-4 code: Arctic Islands process: GF 14nm
built: 2016-20 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DVI-D-1
empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67df
class-ID: 0300 temp: 44.0 C
Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.14 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0
driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-size: <missing: xdpyinfo>
Monitor-1: DVI-D-1 mapped: DVI-D-0 model: Samsung SyncMaster
serial: <filter> built: 2010 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 92 gamma: 1.2
chroma: red: x: 0.651 y: 0.337 green: x: 0.290 y: 0.612 blue: x: 0.145
y: 0.071 white: x: 0.314 y: 0.329 size: 530x300mm (20.87x11.81")
diag: 609mm (24") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080, 1600x1200, 1680x1050,
1280x1024, 1440x900, 1280x960, 1280x800, 1280x720, 1024x768, 800x600,
640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: radeonsi surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11:
drv: radeonsi inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.2.8-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 480 Graphics
(radeonsi polaris10 LLVM 18.1.8 DRM 3.59 6.12.4-1-MANJARO)
device-ID: 1002:67df memory: 3.91 GiB unified: no
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.303 layers: N/A device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: AMD
Radeon RX 480 Graphics (RADV POLARIS10) driver: N/A device-ID: 1002:67df
surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon
RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] vendor: PC Partner / Sapphire
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aaf0 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.12.4-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: n/a (root, process) with:
1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active
3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte
driver: atl1c v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000
bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:1083 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Info: services: NetworkManager,systemd-timesyncd
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 240.17 GiB (51.6%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 500GB
size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 2B6Q scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 452.77 GiB size: 444.59 GiB (98.19%)
used: 240.16 GiB (54.0%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda2
maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A uuid: f806604e-3076-43c2-ab49-1bb7587e42da
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
label: N/A uuid: EFBB-AE40
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 12.7 GiB used: 2.5 MiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 label: N/A
uuid: e2b46ab8-dc77-4dc7-8478-a89ef1122319
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-3:2 info: SteelSeries ApS Apex 3 type: keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 400mA chip-ID: 1038:161a class-ID: 0300
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0
speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 1 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 3-1:2 info: VIA Labs Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 100mA
chip-ID: 2109:0811 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-1.3:3 info: Corsair Gaming HARPOON RGB Mouse type: mouse,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 300mA chip-ID: 1b1c:1b3c class-ID: 0300
serial: <filter>
Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0
speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Hub-6: 5-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Hub-7: 5-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 8087:0024
class-ID: 0900
Hub-8: 6-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Hub-9: 6-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 8087:0024
class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 44.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 1619
Repos:
Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 0 pm: pacman pkgs: 1122 libs: 373 tools: pamac,yay
pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
1: https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
2: https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
3: http://manjaro.mirror.ac.za/stable/$repo/$arch
Processes:
CPU top: 5 of 295
1: cpu: 396% command: S:\common\Zenimax pid: 3475 mem: 4217.5 MiB (35.3%)
2: cpu: 10.8% command: Proton pid: 3177 mem: 25.9 MiB (0.2%)
3: cpu: 8.4% command: firefox pid: 3744 mem: 497.4 MiB (4.1%)
4: cpu: 7.9% command: firefox pid: 3970 mem: 273.4 MiB (2.2%)
5: cpu: 4.7% command: Xorg pid: 847 mem: 165.8 MiB (1.3%)
Memory top: 5 of 295
1: mem: 4217.5 MiB (35.3%) command: S:\common\Zenimax pid: 3475 cpu: 396%
2: mem: 497.4 MiB (4.1%) command: firefox pid: 3744 cpu: 8.4%
3: mem: 405.5 MiB (3.4%) command: ./steamwebhelper pid: 2564 cpu: 0.7%
4: mem: 388.8 MiB (3.2%) command: steamwebhelper pid: 2657 cpu: 0.2%
5: mem: 273.4 MiB (2.2%) command: firefox pid: 3970 cpu: 7.9%
Info:
Processes: 295 Power: uptime: 52m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 4.63 GiB services: upowerd,xfce4-power-manager
Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Compilers: N/A Shell: Sudo (sudo) v: 1.9.16p2 default: Bash v: 5.2.37
running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.36
I have updated this system info with current changes I’ve made.
ok just created partition linux-swap and enabled swap. testing now.
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/dev/sda3 partition 12.7G 256K -2
That didn’t seem to make a difference but I did notice something this time. Providing I don’t put any input into the mouse or keyboard, the game (Elder scroll online) would continue to run smooth, even in the heart of the battle. The second I move the mouse or press a key, the stutter starts.
So I’ve gone back to look at the interrupts and found just moving the mouse is generating a lot. what do you guys think?
$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6 CPU7
8: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC 8-edge rtc0
9: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC 9-fasteoi acpi
16: 0 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC 16-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
18: 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC 18-fasteoi i801_smbus
23: 0 0 0 0 0 35 0 0 IR-IO-APIC 23-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb4
25: 0 0 109803 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-0000:00:1f.2 0-edge ahci[0000:00:1f.2]
26: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-0000:07:00.0 0-edge ahci[0000:07:00.0]
27: 0 0 0 0 0 8469 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-0000:00:14.0 0-edge xhci_hcd
35: 0 0 0 0 0 0 585985 0 IR-PCI-MSI-0000:03:00.0 0-edge xhci_hcd
36: 1665032 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-0000:01:00.0 0-edge amdgpu
37: 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-0000:00:16.0 0-edge mei_me
38: 0 0 0 832 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-0000:00:1b.0 0-edge snd_hda_intel:card0
39: 0 0 0 0 646 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-0000:01:00.1 0-edge snd_hda_intel:card1
40: 0 0 0 0 0 157878 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-0000:06:00.0 0-edge enp6s0
NMI: 161 158 164 155 151 156 159 162 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 1614684 1408763 1376624 1416652 2119733 1433071 1398561 1387949 Local timer interrupts
SPU: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts
PMI: 161 158 164 155 151 156 159 162 Performance monitoring interrupts
IWI: 812197 0 0 1686 3955 3 2 1058 IRQ work interrupts
RTR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 APIC ICR read retries
RES: 476441 338308 329485 661907 796410 355415 343914 459974 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 2054848 2006180 1944702 2011357 2062412 1984551 1998779 1974115 Function call interrupts
TLB: 1156020 1165600 1122893 1130845 1104894 1119735 1121458 1145987 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
DFR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Deferred Error APIC interrupts
MCE: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Machine check exceptions
MCP: 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Machine check polls
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
PIN: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Posted-interrupt notification event
NPI: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Nested posted-interrupt event
PIW: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Posted-interrupt wakeup event
PMN: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Posted MSI notification event
Things I have tried already
*Enable xHCI
*Disable EHCI handoff
*USB 2.0 controller
*Disable legacy USB
Moderator edit: Removed unnecessary screenshot.
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