Server freezes when running daily cronjob

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Alexander Troppmann wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm running a webserver with Fedora Core 1 and have troubles with an (yet 
>unkown) daily running cronjob. It seems that a process started from 
>/etc/cron.daily at 4:02h in the morning freezes the linux kernel so the 
>server returns back to work by a hardware reset only... :-(
>
>Unfortunatly I cannot find out which one is the process responsible for the 
>server crash. I tried to run each job from console myself but everything was 
>fine, no errors or kernel freezes.
>  
>
Is you system running the SMP kernel??

I had this on my P4 Hyperthreading PC..

It would apprear that the problem is caused by something that RH has 
added to the Kernel.. The way I fixed it was to download the standerd 
kernel source from kernel.org and then using the FC1 .config file I 
built a new SMP kernel.. Since then it has been rock solid for over a 
month now.. Not a single crash or hang..

Maybe give it a try..

Later..