[CentOS] Server locking up everyday around 3:30 AM

Mon Mar 14 20:34:52 UTC 2011
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On 3/14/2011 3:24 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> (those commands should run the cron normally except starting at 03:00,
>> where it should kick off at 3:15 instead of 03:05)
>>
>> If it also fails to start at 03:15 then that would suggest that
>> something is happening to the cron job the last time it is run to make
>> it hang (or make the system think it is hung).
>>
> I wonder if the other end has some file(s) locked for writing or other reason
> and that is choking the local wget.

But nothing the other end does should cause a kernel task hang. 
Shouldn't that only be inside a device driver?

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   Les Mikesell
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