Solved One solution to kernel panic, computer reboot

Have you ever experienced a kernel panic which caused your computer to reboot at the worst possible time? I just found a workaround for panics occurring during port builds. It turned out that my BIOS settings boosted the CPU a little too much, causing write failures. These failures would rarely occur, so they were hard to isolate, and I began to seriously doubt the reliability of FreeBSD.

Here's the bug report I wrote when it got to its worst:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200725

Conclusion, if you experience random kernel panics, check your BIOS settings, and disable cache prefetch and CPU boost options. You can always enable one option at a time over time to see which of these BIOS optimisations work for you.

Have fun!
Dominique.
 
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