It depends on the watchdog hardware itself. Some are not able to
handle long timeouts. Check the man pages for the hardware you are
using. The VIA hardware that we hacked a driver for said it could go
upto 512 seconds, but we could not get to that length
http://www.tancsa.com/watchdog/
Thanks
What's the proper way to configure the watchdog timer service so that a
system will automatically reboot after five minutes of
non-responsiveness? I tried setting watchdog to run with the args -s 10
-t 300, but I've seen systems reboot after only a few seconds of
inactivity (such as being hung
On Sun, 24 May 2009 23:00:50 -0700, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:
What's the proper way to configure the watchdog timer service so that a
system will automatically reboot after five minutes of
non-responsiveness? I tried setting watchdog to run with the args -s 10
-t 300, but I've