On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 22:34 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > 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. I'm not familiar with the acronym, but what did you find out in your checking? (He said lazily ...) poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
