Re: [patch] Change softlockup trigger limit using a kernelparameter

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jul 19 2007 - 14:45:50 EST



* Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > also, i think the valid threshold should be between 1 and 60 seconds
> > i think.
>
> 60 seconds! Is that not a pretty high threshold? The reason for
> lowering the tolerance threshold from 10s is to catch bugs early in
> lab environments, but why do we need to raise the tolerance thresh
> beyond 10s?

just in case someone sees false positives and wants to turn it off.

Ingo
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