On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 12:30 -0500, Ted Phelps wrote:
> Bill Maas writes:
> > There still is the other issue, that of the watchdog reset during
> > boot. It happens on an OpenBSD box, maybe on Linux boxes too, if the
> > timeout value is set too low. The appropriate lines from /etc/rc (4.0
> > unp
> I quite frankly have no idea under which circumstances process
> scheduling would fail under a kernel which is otherwise still
> running.
I don't think I've seen that, strictly, but I have seen failure modes
which have much the same effect (no userland processes running but the
kernel proper is
Bill Maas writes:
> There still is the other issue, that of the watchdog reset during
> boot. It happens on an OpenBSD box, maybe on Linux boxes too, if the
> timeout value is set too low. The appropriate lines from /etc/rc (4.0
> unpatched) are:
Just FYI, the Linux watchdog timer driver (for th
Hi,
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 18:53 +0200, Iustin Pop wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:07:54AM +0200, Bill Maas wrote:
> > If I understood the OpenBSD manual well, all the watchdog does is
> > determine (by nature) that job scheduling fails. Which indicates that
> > the kernel is in some erratic st
