On 2009-01-14, Thorsten Mühlfelder <[email protected]> wrote: > So I need a damon, too? I thought it's a kernel only thing because there is > extra hardware for this task.
Can be either, but wouldn't you want to know that userland is still functional? >> > As far as I know the net4501 watchdog should reboot the machine when the >> > kernel hangs. How can I test this with Linux? If there's a userland daemon, the previous suggestions of kill -9 should be fine. If you don't have a userland process involved and the kernel is tickling the watchdog (e.g. as with kern.watchdog.auto on OpenBSD) then making the kernel stop running would be a good way to test it. I usually just put the kernel into DDB if I want to test this, since it stops it from running. Maybe you could use whatever kernel debugger Linux has. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
