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Subject: Re: Kernel panic on PowerEdge 1950 under certain stress load
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Ivan Voras wrote:
> Benjie Chen wrote:
> 
>> Kernel panic is at 0xC066C731, which from nm shows it's in mtx_lock_spin
>>  c066c7b4 T _mtx_lock_spin
>>  c066c85c T _mtx_unlock_sleep
>>
>> So this could mean that independent stress tests will not result in 
>> panic if
>> there aren't enough concurrency to cause the problem.
> 
> When you get a kernelbacktrace, see if it's the same as the one 
> mentioned here:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-September/076932.html 

Surely it cannot be since it involves a different function ;-)

Kris