From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 8 19:49:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D483D106564A for ; Sat, 8 May 2010 19:49:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brampton@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6877E8FC16 for ; Sat, 8 May 2010 19:49:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm15 with SMTP id 15so1737902fxm.13 for ; Sat, 08 May 2010 12:49:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=3uiKKyKnvHCfMYI4sjKMiMDApGjHMSft8sHEAsb4TEE=; b=ZRLpfehmLdilzXcwin1E7yWiN49h14NOyP6kHUkcIv9Rl5CRPn/qKIT14Sh0CSMhGT DGetrb45l7PoSDV3how0k7r6NulT+IXZtfSKB73BfJwhzL5oYvFPegsQJ/yIS4e93jEN sPWPS9e7I1jDKOyGdfkHGjZKTxr0IN8VyP4OQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=Swbe3HM3/Ter3lOL3TFZcylDdC0m73SqKEDSMWQAvieTwVV2l92H8SC2mYesbZI/sA 3sqo1mibQ3GpirpIRE59BRQeMkTustNuWrF7Zb/I6HEIEdydEep0vwgk7Uhcx7s3VPIc 0GL0q02ZCfxmOM757zlBPsiguXel8drQSZkfc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.45.83 with SMTP id d19mr1858236faf.65.1273346657489; Sat, 08 May 2010 12:24:17 -0700 (PDT) Sender: brampton@gmail.com Received: by 10.223.126.208 with HTTP; Sat, 8 May 2010 12:24:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BE561C7.70702@mail.ru> References: <4BE561C7.70702@mail.ru> Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 20:24:17 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2cQ6EFwzeWplckdsRywX-ahN8kU Message-ID: From: Andrew Brampton To: rihad Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Enabling watchdog X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 19:49:13 -0000 On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:06 PM, rihad wrote: > Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 / > FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of lockups. > Right now it doesn't work: > I installed watchdogd on a few 8-core Dell PowerEdge 1950, which I assume are similar to the 2950s. I wrote about how to do this on my blog[1] last year. However, something in the last couple of months has broken watchdog and my machines causing them to regularly lock up. I'm unsure what has changed, and I didn't have time to investigate so I just turned it off and everything is now fine. Andrew [1] http://bramp.net/blog/freebsd-software-watchdog