Author: zont
Date: Tue Aug 28 08:38:53 2012
New Revision: 239769
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/239769

Log:
  - Don't allow watchdogd(8) to be swapped out.
    On machines with huge amount of swap and high IO activity,
    watchdogd(8) may wait for a swap memory longer than timeout and
    sometimes fires.
  
  Approved by:  kib (mentor)
  MFC after:    1 week

Modified:
  head/usr.sbin/watchdogd/watchdogd.c

Modified: head/usr.sbin/watchdogd/watchdogd.c
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.sbin/watchdogd/watchdogd.c Tue Aug 28 06:52:00 2012        
(r239768)
+++ head/usr.sbin/watchdogd/watchdogd.c Tue Aug 28 08:38:53 2012        
(r239769)
@@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
                pidfile_write(pfh);
                if (madvise(0, 0, MADV_PROTECT) != 0)
                        warn("madvise failed");
+               if (mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) != 0)
+                       warn("mlockall failed");
 
                watchdog_loop();
 
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