At 02:54 AM 12/31/2003, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
>Folks, there is _NOTHING_ in that watchdog; it enables a 31 second 
>hardware-countdown on the CPU by passing a single ioctl() to the kernel 
>which directly writes the value into a CPU register. Then sleeps 15 
>seconds (using nanosleep()) and does it again.

I don't think I've seen anyone claiming the watchdog is CPU 
intensive.  They seem to be arguing that they'd rather have their systems 
get flakey rather than reboot when overloaded.


         -crl
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