Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Mitch Adair <> | Subject | Re: subsystem crashes reboot system? | Date | Wed, 2 Apr 2003 12:06:22 -0600 (CST) |
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> good. But this crash left the system in a semi-functional state. The > networking stack was up and running, the kernel was running, but the > filesystem was not functional and because of this the kernel was in a nearly > unusable state. Because the system was pingable, most tcp-stack level > detectors would not have been able to tell that something serious was wrong. > The machine (our main production machine that serves millions of hits a week) > was down for three hours.
Isn't this what watchdog is for? I think even the software watchdog would catch this, then you can panic and reboot.
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