Method and system for performing diagnostics or software maintenance for a vehicle

摘要

A method and system for performing diagnostics or software maintenance on a vehicle comprises a data processor (71) for performing a particular task. A resource monitor (74) is arranged for determining if resource consumption of the data processor (71) for the respective particular task exceeds a threshold amount of resource consumption. A loop counter (75) is arranged to increment a loop counter (75) in a data storage device (56) associated with the data processor (71) if the resource consumption for the respective particular task exceeds the threshold amount. A poison task module (65) is capable of designating the particular task as a poison message if the data processor (71) has been rebooted a maximum number of times as indicated by the loop counter (75).