https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219399
--- Comment #252 from Don Lewis <truck...@freebsd.org> --- (In reply to SF from comment #250) This mega-thread https://community.amd.com/thread/215773?start=0&tstart=0 on AMD Community Forum is full of Linux users who are experiencing random segfaults when doing parallel compiles. Lots of experiments with different voltage settings, RAM timing settings, and tweaking of other BIOS knobs. AMD eventually admitted that there is a "performance marginality" issue and has been doing warranty replacements for customers who run into this problem. Sometimes they request that the customer perform some experiments with various voltage and other settings before approving the replacement, but I don't recall seeing any success stories from that. AMD was apparently manually screening some of the replacement CPUs before shipping them, as evidenced by one of the seals on the replacement CPU being cut and traces of thermal compound on the CPU. At least in some cases AMD performed testing with hardware identical to the the customer's. The system crashes and hangs that I and many other FreeBSD users was caused by the behavior of the instruction prefetch hardware near the maximum possible user address 0x7fffffffffff. This problem affected both FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD. I don't know about the other BSDs. We implemented an acceptable workaround in r321899. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
