Hello On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Chris Paulson-Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/02/12 19:05, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> (As I figured out newer Intel chipsets all have watchdogs now, so I am >> actually quite keen to see this implemented in systemd now, since I can >> actually test it.) > Just a warning to anyone who's thinking of depending on the chipset > watchdog... In my experience, many boards are not correctly wired up to > reset properly when the chipset watchdog fires. Although it works most of > the time, I've had boards hang under testing using the iTCO_wdt watchdog > driver.
Some more info: I've found that the "Optimal Defaults" BIOS option on some motherboards disables the iTCO_wdt watchdog. Luckily server boards usually also have an IPMI watchdog, which works great under Linux. Regards Albert _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
