On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:07:08PM +0200, Eero Tamminen wrote: > >My last two spontaneous reboots were attributed to 32_wd (ie. the > >watchdog). > > I've never encountered this reboot. Had you been doing a lot of disk > operations (*both* saving and removing large amounts of data from the > internal Flash) before the night on which the device reboots? That's likely. I upgraded several megs' worth of software during the last several days. > My suspicion is that sometimes the JFFS2 file system garbage collecting > might keep the kernel busy for >1/2 minute without yielding the control > back to scheduler. Normally the JFFS2 GC happens only on bootup (in > case you were wondering why the booting is sometimes slower), but > it can be run also during normal usage. HW watchdog reboots the > device if it's not refreshed within 1/2 min (in the JFFS2 case the > device would probably unfreeze / function normally after GC has > finished). Marius Gedminas -- "Don't trust a statistic you haven't faked yourself." -- Seen in another posting by Markus Kuhn -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20070302/8684e12d/attachment.pgp
