On Saturday, 18 December 2004 at 11:50:02 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 11:57:35AM +0100, Daniel Johansson wrote: >> Hi, i've had my server up for over a year now and it's been rock solid >> but for the latest weeks the server has rebooted evert Saturday at >> exact 04:19:57 because of a find command. I have no idea why and I've >> checked the cron log and I don't think any crontab is runned at that >> time. Not as far as I can see from the cron log. Anyway find makes the >> server get a kernel panic and it reboots. This is the fourth week in a >> row it happens and I've checked the hardware, no problems at all. > > How did you "check the hardware"? Hardware failure is by far the > most common cause of "strange panics under abnormal load [such as > when the weekly cron job runs]".
If this panic occurs repeatedly under certain circumstances, it's probably not hardware. Anyway, there's not much point standing outside and scratching our heads. We have a facility for analysing this kind of problem: the processor dump and kernel debugger. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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