Re: hardware monitoring at the most basic level …
On Wed 22 Aug 2012 at 15:18:31 -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> How do you get periodic snapshots of your running hardware?
I don't usually bother, but a reboot and a glance at dmesg can be enough.
> My box started to shutdown by itself and I doubt it is related to
> overheating (in a random and plain physical way) so I changed it for
> another one because I didn’t have time for troubleshooting/fixing at
> this moment but then the same thing started to happen to the other box
Have you got time now? Or will you move on to a third machine?
> What I notice is that for no obvious apparent reason the CPU taxes to
> the max and the box starts revving wildly
Is overheating complelely ruled out?
> I use different live CDs based on linux debian and I am very careful
> in order to avoid the regular bs out there
bs?
> I would like to periodically test the underlying hardware as low as
> possible to the bare metal, because if something is messing with your
> OS it will be harder for you to notice anything
Nothing messes with Debian.
> Any best practices and tips you would share?
Install Debian.
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