looking for explanation of spontaneous reset/reboot on Opteron

[Edward Goggin <egoggin@emc.com>]

I'm looking for information about potential causes for a
spontaneous reboot of a dual core Opteron running RHEL 4
linux (2.6.9 derivative).  I'm thinking the cause is
due to the box taking a triple fault and resetting the
BIOS.

I'm also thinking that the triple fault is caused by a
kernel stack overflow into an unmapped virtual page
frame.  Is this a reasonable explanation?  Are there
others?

What are reasonable debugging strategies for handling
this?  Following the kernel stack overflow hunch, I'm
going to try increasing the Opteron stack size from
8K to 16K.  Can this be done by simply changing
THREAD_ORDER in include/asm-x86_64/page.h from 1 to 2?

Also, is there any kernel stack overflow detection
debugging code anywhere for x86_64 as there is for
i386?

Thanks,

Ed Goggin
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