Adjusting the parents watchdog timer

[Dave Cheney]

The embarrassing thing is these machines are doing 40req/sec not the  
5000 that others reportedly handle. I've tried to strip out all the  
non essential services running on these machines, leaving nothing  
running by varnish, but there may be some periodic IO sapping cron job  
that I have missed and is causing >>that<< much of a periodic load  
that the watchdog timer fires.

I've reduced the watchdog to 5 seconds now, i'll see how that goes and  
if it can give any hints.

Cheers

Dave


On 27/02/2008, at 9:58 AM, Adrian Otto wrote:

> For what it's worth, I've also seen the condition you described. My
> solution was to simply disable the watchdog timer. I did not have the
> energy to debug it, because it only seemed to happen when I was
> pushing rather ridiculously high test loads.