[systemd-devel] systemd-journald watchdog timeout

[Umut Tezduyar Lindskog]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 22.10.14 18:35, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog (umut at tezduyar.com) wrote:
>
>> > That's difficult to say just from these logs. Can you reliably
>> > reproduce this? If so, can you attach strace to journald before this
>> > happens and see what it is doing?
>>
>> I am wondering if we should send another signal that generates core
>> when the watchdog is not fed. It would be nice to get the coredump of
>> a frozen process.
>
> Oh indeed, we should probably send a SIGABRT in this case. Makes a ton
> of sense. Love it!
>
> Added to the TODO list.

What makes sense here the most? Something like KillSignalWatchdog= or
just by default sending SIGABRT on services that timed out?

Umut

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> Lennart
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