freebsd stable - Jan 2018 - Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ?

Out of interest, is there anyone out there running Ryzen who *hasnt* 
seen lockups ? I'd be curious if there a lot of lurkers thinking "mine 
works fine"

To be honest this thread has put me off building my machine, the pile of 
boxes with motherboard, case, cpu and ram is still sitting next to me 
desk at work!

-pete.

On 1/19/2018 4:14 PM, Pete French wrote:
> To be honest this thread has put me off building my machine, the pile of
> boxes with motherboard, case, cpu and ram is still sitting next to me
> desk at work!
It is quite discouraging, isnt it :(  From my POV however, I really want
a "plan b" to Spectre / Meltdown that at least slows down attackers. 
On
a few servers, I do have ways to detect after that fact intrusions
(tripwire etc), but I want to mitigate this attack from happening in the
first place as much as possible.  Supposedly Spectre exploits on AMD are
MUCH harder (or so says AMD at least) so I am hoping I can at least have
this as an option.  We even ordered a Tyan Epyc based board to see what
its like too.

	---Mike



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On 19 Jan, Pete French wrote:
> Out of interest, is there anyone out there running Ryzen who *hasnt* 
> seen lockups ? I'd be curious if there a lot of lurkers thinking
"mine
> works fine"
No hangs or silent reboots here with either my original CPU or warranty
replacement once the shared page fix was in place.