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Date:      Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:38:53 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Andrey Zonov <zont@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r239769 - head/usr.sbin/watchdogd
Message-ID:  <201208280838.q7S8crqM038104@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: zont
Date: Tue Aug 28 08:38:53 2012
New Revision: 239769
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/239769

Log:
  - Don't allow watchdogd(8) to be swapped out.
    On machines with huge amount of swap and high IO activity,
    watchdogd(8) may wait for a swap memory longer than timeout and
    sometimes fires.
  
  Approved by:	kib (mentor)
  MFC after:	1 week

Modified:
  head/usr.sbin/watchdogd/watchdogd.c

Modified: head/usr.sbin/watchdogd/watchdogd.c
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.sbin/watchdogd/watchdogd.c	Tue Aug 28 06:52:00 2012	(r239768)
+++ head/usr.sbin/watchdogd/watchdogd.c	Tue Aug 28 08:38:53 2012	(r239769)
@@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		pidfile_write(pfh);
 		if (madvise(0, 0, MADV_PROTECT) != 0)
 			warn("madvise failed");
+		if (mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) != 0)
+			warn("mlockall failed");
 
 		watchdog_loop();
 



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