Re: watchdog question

2012-08-06 Thread Konrad Neuwirth
Hello again, Am 30.07.2012 um 16:05 schrieb Sascha Wildner: On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:58:25 +0200, Konrad Neuwirth kon...@fimsch.net wrote: Dear readers, because of a problem of a system freezing up ever so often (and so hard that even the kernel debugger wont launch), I am looking into

watchdog question

2012-07-30 Thread Konrad Neuwirth
Dear readers, because of a problem of a system freezing up ever so often (and so hard that even the kernel debugger wont launch), I am looking into activating the hardware watchdog. I've configured it in the kernel and it is recognized all well. Now, my question: I read the

Re: watchdog question

2012-07-30 Thread Sascha Wildner
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:58:25 +0200, Konrad Neuwirth kon...@fimsch.net wrote: Dear readers, because of a problem of a system freezing up ever so often (and so hard that even the kernel debugger wont launch), I am looking into activating the hardware watchdog. I've configured it in the

Re: watchdog question

2012-07-30 Thread Alex Hornung
On 30/07/12 14:58, Konrad Neuwirth wrote: Now, my question: I read the kernel.watchdog.auto and kernel.watchdog.period knobs to mean the kernel can auto-update the kernel; on the other hand, the documentation refers me to the watchdogd daemon. The latter one claims /dev/wdog isn't