Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: > Hello Guys, > > > > I’ve got an application that I’ve written, and it sits in an embedded > system, from time to time the application will crash, I’m not quite sure > what’s causing this, but as we test it more and more we’ll grasp a > better understanding and fix the issues. > > > > However, until then I need a quick solution which can spot the crash and > reboot the system. Is there any generic way of writing a separate > application that’ll spot the crash in my main application? If not then i > was thinking about having my core application log itself as ‘alive’ > every 5 minutes or so. My new ‘spotter’ application can check this log, > if it’s not been written too in say 6 minutes then the main app must > have crashed, and it can reboot. > > > > Any suggestions on how best to handle this? Obviously finding the bug in > my main app is paramount, but a failsafe will never hurt. > I don't know of any pre-written functionality, but I'd recommend using a UDP socket for this. Let your application send a packet (say) every 30 seconds and have the monitoring application restart it if it doesn't hear a packet for 90 seconds.
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