If the power supply cannot handle it the node will flat out crash. There is no mechanism for the cpu/memory/mb to deal with a power supply unable to supply enough. The load going up will likely be something else, I have never seen hw show as that. On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 3:43 PM John Stoffel <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Another thing that struck me is maybe it's time to boot into a small > stress testing image and see if it's more of a hardware issue. It > might also be a power supply issue, where as the load goes up, your > power supply can't keep the voltage up and the system fails that way? > > There's the 'stress-ng' package for beating on systems. And I think > I've used 'sysrecue' in the past to boot up systems and run stress > tests. > > Getting the regular OS out of the way with something lower level and > simpler to stress test the hardware is a good idea. > > https://www.stresslinux.org/sl/ > > Might be another good option. > > Good luck! > John
