> On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Rob Hagopian wrote:
>
> > 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 ...
how 'bout setting the user-mode side of the thing to be realtime priority
scheduling?
Greg Alexander - also <gralexan@indiana.edu> - http://sietch.home.ml.org/
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