[systemd-devel] Newbie question - Requires doesn't work properly

[David Timothy Strauss]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:57 PM, salil GK <gksalil at gmail.com> wrote:
> What happens is - my process may be busy with some other activity during
> which time it will fail to send periodic message to systemd. After a while
> it will come out of it's loop and ready to serve. But during this time
> system would have already marked the process as failed.

Then you need to either use another thread, refactor to make a tighter
event loop, or increase the watchdog time. Drifting in and out of
tolerance with watchdog is not a safe strategy.