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mauhur

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From: Salvador, BA

Registered: 2006-08-11

Posts: 3

Watchdog and default kernel

Hi!

I don't know why the default kernel has watchdog enabled by default.

[m@nocive:/]$ ps aux |grep watch
root         5  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   08:23   0:00 [watchdog/0]
root         8  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   08:23   0:00 [watchdog/1]

And...

[m@nocive:/]$ zcat /proc/config.gz |grep WATCHDOG
CONFIG_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG=y
CONFIG_IPMI_WATCHDOG=m
# CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set

The question is.. how can I disable this? I don't need it, I guess..

Thanks

dyscoria

Member

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: Watchdog and default kernel

I don't know why the default kernel has watchdog enabled by default.

Because having it enabled doesn't affect anyone + means that those that want to use the watchdog daemon don't have to recompile the kernel themselves.

how can I disable this?

Well you can recompile the kernel if you want and uncheck the watchdog module. I only run a self compiled kernel with minimal options.
Looks like one of the watchdog kernel options for Arch is compiled as a module, so check lsmod to see if it is loaded and blacklist that module if you don't want to recompile. Though personally I don't see any reason to do anything about it unless it really is vital to disable watchdog.

Last edited by dyscoria (2008-07-20 14:05:13)

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