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Date:      Thu, 14 Nov 2019 22:28:49 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>, freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: can the hardware watchdog reboot a hung kernel?
Message-ID:  <9cded04a-9ae1-881e-3962-7ef0322e96ed@grosbein.net>
In-Reply-To: <EC4DB495-55D0-44BB-8D6A-0301785FADC7@cs.huji.ac.il>
References:  <EC4DB495-55D0-44BB-8D6A-0301785FADC7@cs.huji.ac.il>

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14.11.2019 21:52, Daniel Braniss wrote:

> hi,
> I have serveral hundred Nano-pi NEO running, and sometimes they hang, since there is no console
> available, the only solution is to do a power cycle - not so easy since they are distributed in three buildings :-)
> 
> I am looking at the watchdog stuff, but it seems that what I want is not supported, i.e.
> 	reboot the kernel when hung 
> 
> wishful thinking?

It's possible if the hardware has such a watchdog and kernel subsystem watchdog(4) supports it.
rc.conf(5) manual page describes watchdogd_enable option.




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