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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