Advice on kernel panics

Doug McIntyre merlyn at geeks.org
Thu Jun 1 05:10:39 UTC 2017


On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 11:20:43AM +0200, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
> I have a server that panics about every 3 days and need some advice on how
> to handle that.

I'd expect it is some sort of hardware failure, as I would expect
kernel panics more on the order of once a decade with FreeBSD. Ie.
I've seen one or two on my hundred or so servers, but its pretty rare.

Check and recheck your hardware items. 

Runup memtest86+. Check your drive hardware, turn on SMART checking.



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