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On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:15:29 -0600, Greg Larkin <glarkin@freebsd.org>  
wrote:

> I haven't used watchdogd(8) (http://bit.ly/eKHUEN) before, but I wonder
> if it would help you by firing some data logging command (-e option) so
> you have some information to go on.

That actually looks like a great solution, but I currently cannot  
recompile the kernel to enable SW_WATCHDOG and take those servers down. We  
have identical hardware in a test environment that I can do that on and  
hopefully see if we can get a clone of the problematic VMs to fail there  
with the watchdogd enabled.


Thanks,


Mark