Panic on 6.1-RELEASE-p3

[Anthony Chavez]

John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> writes:

> On Thursday 02 November 2006 15:19, Anthony Chavez wrote:
>> freebsd-hackers:
>> 
>> I have attached the backtraces of 17 core dumps from one of my
>> machines.  I have several deployments of this same FreeBSD version in
>> the wild, and this is the only machine exhibiting this behavior.
>> 
>> Initially, the cause of these panics seemed to be related to some
>> component in the FreeBSD toolchain, as they would occur when
>> attempting to install a port.  net/samba3 was the one we'd usually
>> test with, but the system would panic with most other larger packages
>> as well.
>> 
>> However, the system is panicking at irrgeular intervals, ranging
>> between 1-3 weeks apart.  This is mostly happening in the off-hours
>> when no human users are actively using the machine, but there have
>> been 1 or 2 incidences where the machine has panicked during prime
>> time.
>
> Have you ran a memory checker or other diags to check for failing hardware?

I ran sysutils/memtest twice.  Both times, it failed to panic the
system.  I have yet to bring the system down and boot into a "real"
memory/hardware checker, however.  I usually just go with
ultimatebootcd.com when testing, but if you have other suggestions for
tools, I'd welcome your input before we schedule to do the testing.

Thanks!

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Anthony Chavez                                 http://anthonychavez.org/
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