> > I noticed this happening as well when I had a heavy user load going and
> > suddenly someone would start pulling a two meg mp3 file through the
> > httpd. My fix, of course, was to nice the watchdog -19 on startup. I
> > don't think it's happened again since I did that.
>
> That is a good idea...
No, it is not. Reason: kswapd. I've seen kswapd running in tight
loop. As kswapd has realtime priority, machine was unusable. If you
were running wathdog at -19, you would have 2 things running: kswapd &
watchdog, and machine completely unusable. That is probably not what
you want.
Pavel
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).