From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:05:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:05:47 -0500 Received: from proxy.ovh.net ([213.244.20.42]:22793 "HELO proxy.ovh.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:05:42 -0500 Message-ID: <3A27FD6B.9CC7CA65@ovh.net> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 20:35:07 +0100 From: octave klaba X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: fr,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: watchdog software In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > my question is: > > > > what kind of problem can have this serveur: > > > > hardware or software ? > > > > > > What sort of watchdog are you using ? > > > > software. no hardware solution. > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/daemons/watchdog/watchdog-5.1.tar.gz > > The software watchdog will fail if the kernel is badly mashed or interrupts > are disabled. yes. > That means it doesn't help tell me if the problem was hardware > or software (nor in general do hardware watchdogs). Is this one box running > different loads to the others or different in any notable way ? nothing really different. we have 5-6 servers like this one and this one have been crashed for 2 days only (once per day). never before !? when the server crashed the load was 1.2. nothing really bad. the only difference is: this server has the serial cart. I was in contact with Ted for the serial problem on Linux, but I have no news from about the crashs. I do not know if the serial cart can crash the server that interrupts are disabled ? Octave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/