"Alex Martelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote:
| H J van Rooyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > "Paul Rubin" <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Writes: | > | > | "H J van Rooyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > *grin* - Yes of course - if the WDT was enabled - its something that | > | > I have not seen on PC's yet... | > | | > | They are available for PC's, as plug-in cards, at least for the ISA | > | bus in the old days, and almost certainly for the PCI bus today. | > | > That is cool, I was not aware of this - added to a long running server it will | > help to make the system more stable - a hardware solution to hard to find bugs | > in Software - (or even stuff like soft errors in hardware - speak to the | > Avionics boys about Neutrons) do you know who sells them and what they are | > called? - | | When you're talking about a bunch of (multiprocessing) machines on a | LAN, you can have a "watchdog machine" (or more than one, for | redundancy) periodically checking all others for signs of health -- and, | if needed, rebooting the sick machines via ssh (assuming the sickness is | in userland, of course -- to come back from a kernel panic _would_ | require HW support)... so (in this setting) you _could_ do it in SW, and | save the $100+ per box that you'd have to spend at some shop such as | <http://www.pcwatchdog.com/> or the like... | | | Alex Thanks - will check it out - seems a lot of money for 555 functionality though.... Especially if like I, you have to pay for it with Rand - I have started to call the local currency Runt... (Typical South African Knee Jerk Reaction - everything is too expensive here... :- ) ) - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
