My server gets kernel panic every 7th day

[Daniel Johansson]

Yeah, I've ran locate.updatedb ten times in a row, rebuilt kernel +
world twice and done a cat /dev/uranom > tmp for some Gigs and nothing
makes it crash :/


On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:46:45 -0800, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:12:58PM +0100, Daniel Johansson wrote:
> > Yeah, it has been rock solid. But if the psu was about to break
> > wouldn't the panics be a little more random?
> >
> > As it is right now it get the exact same panic at the exact same time
> > every week.
> 
> ...during a time when the hard disk is placed under extra load,
> presumably causing enough additional drain on the power supply to
> cause it to fail.  You could probably trigger it yourself by loading
> the machine in a similar way.
> 
> Kris
> 
> 
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