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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:46:53 +0000
From:      Nimrod Levy <nimrodl@gmail.com>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ?
Message-ID:  <CAMgUhpoiO%2B648sbzLvGa0RuCm4zO7apnKqAT_nQwMGJ%2BeQ4Lqw@mail.gmail.com>
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I've been seeing similar issues on Ryzen and asked some questions, here
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2017-December/088121.html

My previous queries didn't go anywhere.

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Nimrod

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 8:38 AM Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote:

> With the Intel issues exposed in meltdown, we were looking at possibly
> deploying some Ryzen based servers for FreeBSD.  We got a pair of
> ASUS PRIME X370-PRO and
>
> CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600X Six-Core Processor            (3593.34-MHz
> K8-class CPU)
>   Origin="AuthenticAMD"  Id=0x800f11  Family=0x17  Model=0x1  Stepping=1
>
> Everything is at its default in the BIOS, no overclocking etc.
>
> However, we are seeing random lockups on both boxes. It doesnt seem to
> correspond with load/activity.  And its a hard lockup.  Keyboard not
> responsive and I cant break to serial debugger, so it doesnt seem to be
> an issue with something in the kernel going into deadlock.
>
> It sort of feels like a hardware issue, but it seems odd that both boxes
> are showing the same issue with random lockups like that.  It could be
> twice in a day or once every 3 days.
>
> Anyone have any insights ?  Anyone have any suggestions about better
> motherboards out there ? We are waiting for Supermicro's Epyc
> availability, but nothing yet.  It would be nice if we could find a
> board with at least some hardware watchdog on it.
>
>
>         ---Mike
>
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