Look folks, the only way the watchdog will restart the node is if the
PacketSender thread freezes for *THREE ENTIRE MINUTES*. There is nothing
wrong with the watchdog.

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:06:19AM +0200, Florent Daigni?re (NextGen$) wrote:
> * Michael Rogers <m.rogers at cs.ucl.ac.uk> [2006-05-31 09:59:12]:
> 
> > Florent Daigni?re (NextGen$) wrote:
> > >You're basically saying that the workaround doesn't work for you, and
> > >you're suggesting that we remove the watchdog in order to let YOUR node
> > >harm the network, that's it ?
> > 
> > I think he's saying that when the workaround is activated, the watchdog 
> > should be deactivated. That makes sense to me.
> 
> It doesn't to me : the workaround is supposed to solve the problem, if
> it doesn't, then the watchdog has to act... There is no point in
> removing it.
> 
> > 
> > >due to the real problem and the non-working workaround.
> > 
> > Are you sure the workaround isn't working? It sounds like the watchdog 
> > might be restarting his node because of CPU starvation, not deadlock.
> > 
> 
> They are two levels :
>       1) the wrapper might restart the node if the CPU usage is to
>       high (I've never seen it occuring)
>       2) Toad's watchdog will restart the PacketSender thread if a
>       deadlock is detected... There might be a bug there, but it's not
>       supposed to restart the node : it might cause the high CPU usage
>       though.
> 
> In any case, we need the logs to know what has happened.
> 
> NextGen$
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