On 01/24/18 20:29, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 01/24/18 20:03, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On rebooting today my system took an age to shutdown, for no apparent
>> reason but possibly related to NFS mounts. Anyway, I looked at the
>> journal and spotted this snippet:
>>
>> Jan 24 11:47:59 bree systemd[1]: Shutting down.
>> Jan 24 11:47:59 bree systemd[1]: Hardware watchdog 'iTCO_wdt', version
>> 0
>> Jan 24 11:47:59 bree systemd[1]: Set hardware watchdog to 10min.
>> Jan 24 11:47:59 bree kernel: watchdog: watchdog0: watchdog did not
>> stop!
>> Jan 24 11:47:59 bree systemd-shutdown[1]: Sending SIGTERM to remaining 
>> processes...
>>
>> So apparently systemd is setting a watchdog timer for 10 minutes, for
>> some reason best known to itself. How can I change this to (say) 5
>> seconds, which would be more than enough for my setup?
>>
>> Also, I don't know what 'watchdog did not stop!' is supposed to mean.
>
> A few things.  First, I believe some user-space processes periodically "kick"
> /dev/watchdog and the kernel uses this to determine that not all the user 
> processes
> have exited on reboot.  Basically trying to make sure files and such are 
> closed
> gracefully.
>
> The 10 minute setting is a kernel parameter watchdog_thresh.
>
> [egreshko@meimei kernel]$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh
> 10
>
> If you want you should be able to set that to whatever you want with sysctl 
> and
> modifying the config file for it.
>

FORGET everything I've said about setting the value for the watchdog time out.  
My
assumption was clearly wrong (after a bit of checking...which I should have done
before responding) 

Once again I've learned the value of the acronym ASS-U-ME.  However, in this 
case
there is no U.


-- 
A motto of mine is: When in doubt, try it out

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