On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:56:03PM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:58:43PM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > > So my final option is a cold boot? Anything to do for future > > > times this happens? > > > > Well, I don't know about FreeBSD, but on Linux I use a watchdog daemon > > in combination with the hardware support present in the soekris. So, if > > the OS is really hung and the daemon doesn't get to run, the hardware > > will reboot the machine. Which, while not nice, is better than just > > having it stay there and do nothing. > > > Hi, > > Thanks.... I looked into this at one point, but if memory > serves me (AND IT USUALLY DOESN'T NOWADAYS) I had it set for like > 30 seconds and it would reboot in the middle of running...
Hmm, never happened to me (on a lightly loaded 4801). I don't remember exactly what time I have set, but it's anyway under 60 seconds. Make sure you give the watchdog daemon high priority - either nice to -20 or run it as realtime task, otherwise it may be preempted by other high priority tasks. iustin _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
