> I've actually had some problems with the software watchdog:
> A user has a 150MB email, tries to open it in pine, pine goes hogwild
> with memory (swap), the computer slows to a crawl, the watchdog process
> doesn't get spawned fast enough, the computer resets.
How can a user get a 150 MB EMail ? Gross..... Anyway, in this case even
with a hardware watchdog, this machine would reset, since the hardware
watchdog counts on a process (softdog) to reset to counter on a regular
basis. Regarding the software watchdog, I'm sure you could go and modify
the timer and raise it to a few minutes...... Just go and modify
/usr/src/linux/driver/char/softdog.c ...