RE: Fresh 7.0 Install: Fatal Trap 12 panic when put under load

2008-07-24 Thread John Sullivan
>> Removing KDB_UNATTENDED from your kernel will allow you >> to interact with the debugger and obtain backtraces etc, >> which is useful when dumps are not being saved. > > Easier said than done, this cause a few panics - no dumps > though ...g!! > > Still the same result ... the system

RE: Fresh 7.0 Install: Fatal Trap 12 panic when put under load

2008-07-16 Thread John Sullivan
> John, a question, how is swap set up on your system? I was > swapping to a file (a memory disk device /dev/md0). I was > doing this because for some reason lost in ancient history, > this machine was not set up with a real swap partition. > Hence, no crash dump. Swap is a partition on t

RE: Fresh 7.0 Install: Fatal Trap 12 panic when put under load

2008-07-16 Thread John Sullivan
> Could be memory, but I'd also suggest looking at > temperatures. I've had overheating systems produce lots of > such errors. Temperature is fine - it never get's that hot here in the UK ;-) Seriously, I put my hand in the box, touched a few heat sync's, it is not running hot enough to cause

RE: Fresh 7.0 Install: Fatal Trap 12 panic when put under load

2008-07-15 Thread John Sullivan
> Can the system in question run memtest86+ successfully (no > errors) for an hour? It would help diminish (but not > entirely rule out) hardware (memory or chipset) issues. Sorry, forgot to mention, I ran memtest over night without any problem reported. I ran Fedora 9 for a month without a

Fresh 7.0 Install: Fatal Trap 12 panic when put under load

2008-07-15 Thread John Sullivan
I am experiencing 'random' reboots interspersed with panics whenever I put a newly installed system under load (make index in /usr/ports is enough). A sample panic is at the end of this email. I have updated to 7.0-RELEASE-p2 using the GENERIC amd64 kernel and it is still the same. The system