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Date:      Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:05:42 +0200
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Sullivan <john@basicnets.co.uk>
Cc:        'Jeremy Chadwick' <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fresh 7.0 Install: Fatal Trap 12 panic when put under load
Message-ID:  <487C8486.1040904@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <B23D0848E1304F719FEBDC3EDC54B914@emea.hubersuhner.net>
References:  <854CADB9D95147CAB10BC35887A8E5DC@emea.hubersuhner.net>	<20080715102135.GA18082@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <B23D0848E1304F719FEBDC3EDC54B914@emea.hubersuhner.net>

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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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