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

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 15 11:05:43 UTC 2008


John Sullivan wrote:
>  
>> 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 any issue -
> FreeBSD 7.0 crashes within an hour.

Well, that doesn't rule out hardware failure.  Different OSes may use 
different capabilities of the hardware, or just use it in a different 
way, and that can provoke failures from marginal hardware.

Please collect kgdb/ddb backtraces.

Kris


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