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Date:      Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:59:19 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: My server gets kernel panic every 7th day
Message-ID:  <20041219222919.GE84787@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041218195002.GC78603@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <2a37e1ef04121802575db1ba26@mail.gmail.com> <20041218195002.GC78603@xor.obsecurity.org>

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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
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