At 01:21 PM 12/29/2003, Manuel Kasper wrote:
>It makes perfect sense to me now: at 100.0% CPU load (mostly interrupts), 
>that poor watchdogd process starves and doesn't get to tickle the watchdog 
>again. After about 30 seconds, the watchdog timer fires, the CPU is reset 
>- bingo.

You could prove that by having the watchdog process syslog a message before 
rebooting.

It =does= make sense.  That would be why polling helped--it stopped the 
interrupt storm.

But I'd prefer the watchdog be left in.  It guarantees that userland 
processes are getting some time to run, which is its whole point.

Actually, at some level, trying to pump tens of megabits through a net45xx 
is an academic effort anyway.  As I've pointed out, it's way faster than a 
T1 even when running a VPN or two in software.  If you =really= need more 
than that, buy a net48xx.  Or build a box around an Athlon motherboard.

         -crl
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