Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ?

[Don Lewis]

On 17 Jan, Nimrod Levy wrote:
> I'm running 11-STABLE from 12/9.  amdtemp works for me.  It also has the
> systl indicating that it it has the shared page fix. I'm pretty sure I've
> seen the lockups since then.  I'll update to the latest STABLE and see
> what  happens.
> 
> One weird thing about my experience is that if I keep something running
> continuously like the distributed.net client on 6 of 12 possible threads,
> it keeps the system up for MUCH longer than without.  This is a home server
> and very lightly loaded (one could argue insanely overpowered for the use
> case).

This sounds like the problem with the deep Cx states that has been
reported by numerous Linux users.  I think some motherboard brands are
more likely to have the problem.  See:
http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=5963&title=taichi-x370-with-ubuntu-idle-lock-ups-idle-freeze