In message <20100823103412.ga21...@icarus.home.lan>, Jeremy Chadwick writes:
>It was brought to my attention that on FreeBSD with a hardware watchdog >in use (e.g. ichwd(4) + watchdogd(8)), once the kernel panics, it's >quite possible for the watchdog to fire (reboot the system) once the >panic has happened. This issue basically inhibits the ability for a >system with a hardware watchdog in place to be able to successfully >complete doadump(). The good news is that the watchdog hopefully gets your system back on the air, even if the dumping hangs. If it is decided to reset/disarm the watchdog before a dump, please make that a sysctl tunable. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
