Re: watchdog software

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Dec 01 2000 - 09:34:58 EST

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    > > > my question is:
    > > > what kind of problem can have this serveur:
    > > > hardware or software ?
    > >
    > > What sort of watchdog are you using ?
    >
    > software. no hardware solution.
    > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/daemons/watchdog/watchdog-5.1.tar.gz

    The software watchdog will fail if the kernel is badly mashed or interrupts
    are disabled. That means it doesn't help tell me if the problem was hardware
    or software (nor in general do hardware watchdogs). Is this one box running
    different loads to the others or different in any notable way ?
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