RE: Watchdog timer

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Steele
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

Watchdog timer

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Steele
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

Re: Watchdog timer

2009-05-25 Thread mike
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