From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 25 06:27:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15FCD1065670 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 06:27:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@webmail.maxiscale.com) Received: from k2smtpout02-01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (k2smtpout02-01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.189.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CFEF28FC19 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 06:27:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@webmail.maxiscale.com) Received: (qmail 14670 invoked from network); 25 May 2009 06:00:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO owa.webmail.maxiscale.com) (72.167.52.135) by k2smtpout02-01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.189.90) with ESMTP; 25 May 2009 06:00:52 -0000 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 23:00:50 -0700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Watchdog timer Thread-Index: Acnc/igIZVaR+wsoQbiHTpdM46q7Mw== From: "Peter Steele" To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Watchdog timer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 06:27:33 -0000 What's the proper way to configure the watchdog timer service so that a system will automatically reboot after five minutes of non-responsiveness? I tried setting watchdog to run with the args "-s 10 -t 300", but I've seen systems reboot after only a few seconds of inactivity (such as being hung on an I/O wait) instead of the full five minutes specified by the -t option. What am I missing? =20