Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 20:29:49 -0400 From: mike@sentex.ca To: "Peter Steele" <psteele@webmail.maxiscale.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Watchdog timer Message-ID: <2rdm15dmjmmcrmats2tnktahe64g3jcvko@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <B8A480488C0C6849826655761349EA4338AA@owa.webmail.maxiscale.com> References: <B8A480488C0C6849826655761349EA4338AA@owa.webmail.maxiscale.com>
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On Sun, 24 May 2009 23:00:50 -0700, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >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? It depends on the watchdog hardware itself. Some are not able to handle long timeouts. Check the man pages for the hardware you are using. The VIA hardware that we hacked a driver for said it could go upto 512 seconds, but we could not get to that length http://www.tancsa.com/watchdog/ ---Mike
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