[mythtvnz] Pointers on how to track down machine lockup

[Wade Maxfield]

On 25/10/2010, at 2:45 PM, Solor Vox wrote:

>  If you're comfortable with bash, I'd
> suggest writing a wee script to log CPU load, free memory,
> temperatures/etc. and current date/time to a file every few 20-30 seconds.


I've chucked the output from top, sensors and hddtemp to a log so will keep an eye on that.

2010-10-25 16:44:14 
top - 16:44:15 up 46 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.18, 0.20, 0.16
Tasks: 284 total,   1 running, 283 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.7%us,  0.4%sy,  0.0%ni, 98.4%id,  0.4%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   3885244k total,  1547512k used,  2337732k free,    51064k buffers
Swap:  3906552k total,        0k used,  3906552k free,  1053712k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 3618 root      20   0 19352 1432  952 R    2  0.0   0:00.03 top                
    1 root      20   0 23844 2032 1276 S    0  0.1   0:01.66 init               
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 kthreadd           
    3 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0        
    4 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0        

fan1:       1510 RPM  (min =   10 RPM)
Core 0:      +33.0°C  (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)  
Core 1:      +30.0°C  (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)  
Core 2:      +33.0°C  (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)  
Core 3:      +29.0°C  (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)  
/dev/sda: ST3500418AS: 30°C
/dev/sdb: ST31000528AS: 35°C
/dev/sdc: ST31000528AS: 31°C

 - Wade