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?


So it crashed in a day this time.  I tried to get the ctrace data but it 
was taking forever to transcribe so I decided to scrap that for the 
moment and rebuild the kernel with debugging turned on including console 
messages and every other debugging feature enabled.  I'll use that one 
and see what happens.  At least I'll have a symbol table so I'm not 
staring at a list of jumps and calls.