On 01/24/18 20:29, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 01/24/18 20:03, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On rebooting today my system took an age to shutdown, for no apparent >> reason but possibly related to NFS mounts. Anyway, I looked at the >> journal and spotted this snippet: >> >> Jan 24 11:47:59 bree systemd[1]: Shutting down. >> Jan 24 11:47:59 bree systemd[1]: Hardware watchdog 'iTCO_wdt', version >> 0 >> Jan 24 11:47:59 bree systemd[1]: Set hardware watchdog to 10min. >> Jan 24 11:47:59 bree kernel: watchdog: watchdog0: watchdog did not >> stop! >> Jan 24 11:47:59 bree systemd-shutdown[1]: Sending SIGTERM to remaining processes... >> >> So apparently systemd is setting a watchdog timer for 10 minutes, for >> some reason best known to itself. How can I change this to (say) 5 >> seconds, which would be more than enough for my setup? >> >> Also, I don't know what 'watchdog did not stop!' is supposed to mean. > > A few things. First, I believe some user-space processes periodically "kick" > /dev/watchdog and the kernel uses this to determine that not all the user processes > have exited on reboot. Basically trying to make sure files and such are closed > gracefully. > > The 10 minute setting is a kernel parameter watchdog_thresh. > > [egreshko@meimei kernel]$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh > 10 > > If you want you should be able to set that to whatever you want with sysctl and > modifying the config file for it. > FORGET everything I've said about setting the value for the watchdog time out. My assumption was clearly wrong (after a bit of checking...which I should have done before responding) Once again I've learned the value of the acronym ASS-U-ME. However, in this case there is no U. -- A motto of mine is: When in doubt, try it out
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