Random freezes in Chrome with an AMD 9800X3D

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After moving to a AMD 9800X3D I get random short freezes in Chrome. Restarting Chome helps for a few minutes, then it begins again. I do not use a graphics card.

Does anyone encounter this also?

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I can't speak to that as I don't have AMD graphics card nor I use Chrome specifically, but have you tested in other Chromium-based browsers (Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, etc.)?

Try also disabling graphics acceleration in Settings -> System -> Use graphics acceleration when available, see if that makes any difference.

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Thanks for your answer! It turns out that likely it is not Chrome, but KiCad.

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I'm afraid I'm not familiar with KiCad... if you suspect that may be it, check the logs after this happens. On the command line:

sudo journalctl -xe

The reading will be a bit cryptic at first but follow the timestamps and search any mentions of error, OOM (Out Of Memory), etc. You should also have the task monitor running to check for unusually busy processes or other suspicious spikes in resource consumption.