FreeBSD -STABLE servers repeatedly crashing.

[Gleb Smirnoff]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 07:58:18PM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote:
M> >Can you please build kernel with debugging and obtain a crashdump?
M> 
M> High activity on the box today caused us to be able to crash it again 
M> within 9 hours.  I configured all steps per the developers handbook, but 
M> when I went to do savecore, it said "no dumps".
M> 
M> It appears the machine is completely locked up when it does a kernel trap. 
M> The keyboard is non-responsive, and the machine hangs and doesn't reboot.

Please try out this patch to aid the above problem with hang instead of
dump:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c.diff?r1=1.275&r2=1.276

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