Kernel panic, Trap 12, page fault while in kernel mode and freeing
free frag on 7.0 p5 amd64
Laszlo Nagy
gandalf at shopzeus.com
Thu Dec 4 02:50:30 PST 2008
We have a production server which keeps crashing.
Hardware: two Quad Core Xeons (5420), 8GB ECC ram, Intel S5000
motherboard, Areca 1680-ix12 RAID card.
The memory have been replaced three times. Memtest runs OK. The
motherboard was replaced, all firmwares updated to the latest version
(last time an Intel engineer did this for us.)
Machine is running postgresql, postfix, apache, mod_php, dovecot.
Kernel was compiled with debug symbols. Machine configuration can be
found here:
http://195.228.74.135/info
Core dumps are here (not all of them):
http://195.228.74.135/crash
In most cases, the error message is "page fault" but there is also a
"freeing free frag". When there is no big load (weekends) then it runs
for two or three days. It crashes only when there is bigger load on the
server. On very busy days, it can crash three times a day.
I have installed exactly the same software on a desktop computer with
amd X2 BE2350 processor and 3GB non-ecc RAM, and it ran for 6 days
without crashing. (Unfortunately, I cannot use that computer in
production because it is incredibly slow...)
I have found some other posts about a similar problem, but that issue
was closed. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with kernel debugging. Is
this the right place to ask for help?
Thanks,
Laszlo
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