Re: IPX system crash (no log data)

[AGC <agcarver+netbsd%acarver.net@localhost>]

On 10/3/2011 21:03, ..I'd rather be coding ASM! wrote:
> How about a terminal program (tip, putty, minicom, telix, JrComm, etc..)
> with a massive scroll back buffer logging to disk and let it run?
>
> Have you tried provoking it with heavy network, or memory usage, or disk
> activity?
>
> I have an IPX with a weitek powerUp! cpu + rom that was aaround 2003
> getting a bit on the unstable side with similar lock-ups. I ended up
> de-soldering and re-capping the entire board + PSU, and thus far touch
> wood it's not sneezed.
>
> Another thing that may be worth thinking about is an expect script or
> perl script driving the serial device that'll send escape sequences
> through?
Forgot about the network load statement:

Not much for network load, I have a script on another machine making 
queries of ntpd on the IPX every five seconds.  For a while I also had a 
web page pinging gpsd for data every minute.

Right now I have a shell script running every two minutes to record a 
date to a file just so I know when the machine locks up.

Once per night all of the maintenance crons take off doing system 
checks.  I get those emails sent to another machine so there's some 
decent disk activity once per day.