So a panic is a panic, right? Well yes in that is stops your server dead in its tracks, but the how you deal with it is the important thing. I’ve been frustrated for a long time with Linux and FreeBSD (Linux more so) regarding the lack of good post-mortem crash analysis facilities.Some background might be helpful here. One of the clusters that my company administrates has 10 FreeBSD 5.3, 1 FreeBSD 5.