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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:55:11 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Subject:   Re: Watchdog not being disabled while dumping core 
Message-ID:  <86082.1282564511@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:39:40 %2B0300." <4C725DFC.8000205@icyb.net.ua> 

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In message <4C725DFC.8000205@icyb.net.ua>, Andriy Gapon writes:
>on 23/08/2010 13:53 Poul-Henning Kamp said the following:
>> In message <20100823103412.GA21044@icarus.home.lan>, Jeremy Chadwick writes:

>Another workaround is to set watchdog timeout large enough for dumping to
>complete, but that increases time that system is unavailable during a 'hard'
>hang (e.g. caused by hardware).

You cannot trust the hardware to support such long timeouts.

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