My server gets kernel panic every 7th day

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Dec 18 12:46:46 PST 2004


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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