kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Mon Aug 25 19:26:01 CDT 2003 compiler: gcc version 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD] computer: IBM ThinkPad 600E My /etc/make.conf file: # This make.conf file nust have it's entries indented by one space CFLAGS= -O -pipe NOPROFILE= true USA_RESIDENT= YES HAVE_MOTIF= YES NO_LPR= true # The CUPS printing system is installed # eof Hi: My FreeBSD started crashing under heavy load about a week ago. I normally do portupgrade while I am using Kde. This has not been a problem until recently. To duplicate the conditions, I ran 3 Octave sessions, each inverting a 2000x2000 random floating point matrix (4,000,000 floats for each Octave program). I also had Kde up and had portsd -Uu running at the same time. Here is the kernel backtrace from the crash: bash-2.05b$ gdb -k kernel.debug vmcore.0 GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD) <gdb info cut> IdlePTD at phsyical address 0x0046e000 initial pcb at physical address 0x003b2320 panicstr: from debugger panic messages: --- Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0xe fault code = supervisor write, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xca706cc3 stack pointer = 0x10:0xca706ba4 frame pointer = 0x10:0xca706ba0 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 15472 (sh) interrupt mask = none panic: from debugger Fatal trap 3: breakpoint instruction fault while in kernel mode instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc02e5a10 stack pointer = 0x10:0xca7069b8 frame pointer = 0x10:0xca7069c0 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, IOPL = 0 current process = 15472 (sh) interrupt mask = none Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0xe fault code = supervisor write, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xca706cc3 stack pointer = 0x10:0xca706ba4 frame pointer = 0x10:0xca706ba0 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 15472 (sh) interrupt mask = none panic: from debugger Uptime: 38m9s dumping to dev #ad/0x20001, offset 492512 dump ata0: resetting devices .. done 63 62 61 60 59 58 57 56 55 <snip> I did a "where" and this is what I get: (kgdb) where #0 dumpsys () at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:487 #1 0xc01abda7 in boot (howto=260) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:316 #2 0xc01ac1e5 in panic (fmt=0xc031e8c4 "from debugger") at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:595 #3 0xc0134f0d in db_panic (addr=-898601789, have_addr=0, count=-1, modif=0xca706a34 "") at /usr/src/sys/ddb/db_command.c:435 #4 0xc0134ead in db_command (last_cmdp=0xc03703c0, cmd_table=0xc0370200, aux_cmd_tablep=0xc03acdf8) at /usr/src/sys/ddb/db_command.c:333 #5 0xc0134f72 in db_command_loop () at /usr/src/sys/ddb/db_command.c:457 #6 0xc01370af in db_trap (type=12, code=0) at /usr/src/sys/ddb/db_trap.c:71 #7 0xc02e57c2 in kdb_trap (type=12, code=0, regs=0xca706b64) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/db_interface.c:158 #8 0xc02f500c in trap_fatal (frame=0xca706b64, eva=14) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:969 #9 0xc02f4a1a in trap (frame={tf_fs = 16, tf_es = 16, tf_ds = 16, tf_edi = 0, tf_esi = -1069833940, tf_ebp = -898602080, tf_isp = -898602096, tf_ebx = -898455944, tf_edx = -901929760, tf_ecx = 1, tf_eax = 14, tf_trapno = 12, tf_err = 2, tf_eip = -898601789, tf_cs = 8, tf_eflags = 66118, tf_esp = -1071020156, tf_ss = -898455944}) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:636 #10 0xca706cc3 in ?? () #11 0xc0298784 in vm_fault (map=Cannot access memory at address 0x1024e. ) at /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_fault.c:292 Cannot access memory at address 0x10246. (kgdb) Any advice on what I may have misconfigured would be greatly appreciated. I followed Michael Lucas' tutorial on preparing a kernel.debug here: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/04/Big_Scary_Daemons.html As I say, the laptop worked great until about a week ago, when it mysteriously locked up, while doing a portupgrade. Since then I get crashes under heavy loads. I did a memtest and a system check and the laptop checked out OK. Kind regards Jonathan (a FreeBSD newbie)