Hi all, this is regarding my system at work. We use CentOS 6.8 for everything and the server in question is an HP ProLiant DL360 E. This server holds a database that is necessary for my fellow coworkers to do their work. We are on kernel.x86_64.2.6.32-642.3.1.el6.
Regarding the problem, we have a kernel panic that happens every two days. It is very consistent in how it sticks to that schedule but it is not at the same time (it crashes approximately 48 hours from the last time it rebooted). Due to the crashing schedule, it made me believe that it was a certain program that was run by cron that caused the crash. Unfortunately today, I turned off crond and it still crashed! The last time it crashed was on Saturday, 8/13, so that fulfills the two days schedule.
I've posted this issue on stackoverflow and centOS bug tracking to no avail but I posted a lot of the output from the crash utility on there so you can take a look: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/301656/how-to-analyze-a-kernel-panic-messages-from-crash-to-diagnose-problem
Anyways, I really don't understand what is causing it. I'm fairly new at my job so this is a really difficult thing to deal with when I'm only a few months in. RedHat exams don't prepare you for such a thing! Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. I've run a memtester which did not find any faults with the memory. I've googled the problem endlessly but can't find a good solution. Help me /r/linuxadmin, you're my only hope!
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