Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:34:17 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/watchdogd watchdogd.c Message-ID: <48003.1091050457@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:13:45 EDT." <20040728221345.GB19257@green.homeunix.org>
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In message <20040728221345.GB19257@green.homeunix.org>, Brian Fundakowski Feldm an writes: >> Worse, if it had worked it would have prevented watchdogd from >> detecting swap disk related issues. >> >> The only kind of special treatment you should give a watchdog daemons >> is negative benefits so that it will be more sensitive to trouble. > >The usage of real-time priority isn't really much of a negative benefit, >either, though. I wasn't aware of that. It should be backed out or at least be made very optional. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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