From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 19 22:29:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4812316A4CE for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 22:29:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B3E43D2D for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 22:29:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8DE2385605; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:59:19 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:59:19 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20041219222919.GE84787@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <2a37e1ef04121802575db1ba26@mail.gmail.com> <20041218195002.GC78603@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k3qmt+ucFURmlhDS" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041218195002.GC78603@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: Daniel Johansson cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My server gets kernel panic every 7th day X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 22:29:23 -0000 --k3qmt+ucFURmlhDS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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. --k3qmt+ucFURmlhDS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBxgC/IubykFB6QiMRArdeAKC0GsW1hwNli4SLRxqvLA5VIKwooACghyar 5XkHxxt/vItVdtCwsIInmVs= =hmyx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k3qmt+ucFURmlhDS--