I power on my FreeBSD 6.0 Release system every morning and within 20
minutes, the kernel panics. Then it reboots and I never see a panic
again as long as my system stays powered. It is almost always because
of a page fault. From doing a backtrace on the dumps from 30+ seperate
panics over the last couple of months, the instruction pointer is always
at a different code location.
So, it's certainly some kind of hardware issue, but the behavior of
never having a kernel panic happen after a reboot, makes me think that a
part of the hardware is not getting fully powered up and initialized
before the kernel begins to load. Is there a BIOS setting to slow
things down? Or maybe a kernel parameter to tweak for greater hardware
fault tolerance?
I ran memtest86 for a couple of days (the recommended 64 passes) with no
errors. I realize that this test could possibly result in a false
negative, but I don't want to run out and buy a new mobo and RAM if that
isn't the problem.
My hardware is:
mobo: ABIT KX7-333 with VIA Apollo KT 333 chipset
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1667 Mhz)
Memory: Generic PC2700 - 133 DDR
The video, sound, and NIC cards have already been factored out of the
problem.
Thanks for any advice.
Jon
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