On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:12:10PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > The core problem with watchdog WRT stuff like that that is that it's a > fairly small program and doesn't monitor the state of the rest of
Plus it locks itself into main memory and will not suffer from swappiness itself. > userspace so there's error conditions like being deep into swap which > make the actual application unusable but don't stop watchdog soldiering > on. You can configure the watchdog daemon to also test quite some system conditions and react accordingly. This will however be done in user space. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Michael at BorussiaFan dot De, Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org ICQ 179140304, AIM/Yahoo/Skype michaelmeskes, Jabber mes...@jabber.org VfL Borussia! Força Barça! Go SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
