So it's basically that. I am sure it froze at some other time as well, but 95% of the time, I am doing either of these three things, or worse, multiple. When downloading a torrent and using VLC at the same time for example, the whole computer will freeze totally. The mouse will hardly respond anymore, or not at all.
I have tried using different graphics drivers, to no avail. The fact that it will also freeze only when downloading torrents tells me that it probably doesn't have anything to do with it.
Using different torrent clients doesn't make a difference, transmission, deluge, qbittorrent, no difference.
I had the same problem on the last three versions of Ubuntu on this machine. I do not believe that the machine is running out of ram - I had purposely had htop open, and once it froze, there was still plenty.
I'd be grateful for any input on how to alleviate this problem.
Here's the inxi output:
Host: desktop Kernel: 5.8.0-31-generic x86_64 bits: 64
compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 Desktop: GNOME 3.38.1
Distro: Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B450 Pro4 serial: M80-CC008900074
UEFI: American Megatrends v: P3.90 date: 12/12/2019
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0
model: Logitech Marathon Mouse/Performance Plus M705
charge: 10% (should be ignored) status: Discharging
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics
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: 28745
Speed: 2921 MHz min/max: 1400/3600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 2818 2: 2952 3: 2954 4: 2954
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Picasso driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 0a:00.0
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: amdgpu,ati
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 3840x2160~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.38.0 5.8.0-31-generic LLVM 11.0.0)
v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 0a:00.1
Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 0a:00.6
Device-3: MCS Combo384 Amanero type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio
bus ID: 5-1:2
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.0-31-generic
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8192CE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: rtl8192ce v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: 04:d9:f5:c5:52:7b
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASRock driver: r8169 v: kernel port: c000 bus ID: 08:00.0
IF: enp8s0 state: down mac: a8:a1:59:11:b7:1c
IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: 02:42:36:f5:26:8e
IF-ID-2: virbr0 state: down mac: 52:54:00:1c:cf:a2
IF-ID-3: virbr0-nic state: down mac: 52:54:00:1c:cf:a2
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 352.97 GiB (75.8%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Kingston model: SA2000M8500G size: 465.76 GiB
Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found.
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 456.01 GiB used: 352.96 GiB (77.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
Swap:
Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 47.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 47.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 306 Uptime: 4m Memory: 13.59 GiB used: 2.59 GiB (19.0%)
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 3342
Shell: Bash v: 5.0.17 inxi: 3.1.07
edit:
swapon --show output
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/swapfile file 4G 0B -2
grep -i swap /etc/fstab
/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0
