5.3R crashing repeateadly

[Cristóvão Dalla Costa]

Hello

I just installed 5.3 RELEASE on a new server today and everytime I try 
to compile someting for more than five minutes it crashes.

The message it said in the console is something like "page fault while 
in kernel mode", excuse-me if I don't remember it verbatim but I just 
drove home from the datacenter and it crashed again.

The setup is a P4 Xeon HT with a Asus PC-DL motherboard and four serial 
ata drives in RAID 10 mode using vinum. I actually had to use the gvinum 
hack to get the system to boot.

Why the hell doesn't it reboot after it crashes? Is there anything I can 
to to make it reboot in case o a crash? And, can I somehow keep it from 
crashing?

I'm a FreeBSD fan of several years, having used it exclusively for 
servers since 4.3 and now I'm seriously considering throwing this thing 
out and installing some sort of Linux. It took me the whole day to get 
aroung the vinum troubles and now I can't install the ports because it 
keeps crashing.

Furthermore, what sort of reliability can I expect from this server? 
It's 10:30 pm and I'm driving to the datacenter to push the reset button 
for the third time.

Thanks for any help.

Cristóvão