TwistedPacket Posted April 27, 2013 Posted April 27, 2013 Hello All, I am working on the next issue of my long list of Pineapple bugs. When I am running anything on the Pineapple other than Karma it seems to reboot in just about 30 minutes. Would anyone know why this is? Thanks! -Tp Quote
WallE Posted April 27, 2013 Posted April 27, 2013 Maybe you have some power issue, how are you plugging your pineapple? Quote
no42 Posted April 27, 2013 Posted April 27, 2013 there is/was a watchdog process... any process that consumes too much memory/processor affects performance, a thread that cannot count for something like 5secs, will result in the watchdog process thinking the device is in a DoS, so it resets to recover. this appeared in the original Fon/Fonera, and possibly other devices? what you running, how much is that process consuming the processor? I could be wrong? other hypothesis are welcome? Quote
TwistedPacket Posted April 27, 2013 Author Posted April 27, 2013 Maybe you have some power issue, how are you plugging your pineapple? I am using the power adapter plugged into mains. -Tp Quote
TwistedPacket Posted April 27, 2013 Author Posted April 27, 2013 there is/was a watchdog process... any process that consumes too much memory/processor affects performance, a thread that cannot count for something like 5secs, will result in the watchdog process thinking the device is in a DoS, so it resets to recover. this appeared in the original Fon/Fonera, and possibly other devices? what you running, how much is that process consuming the processor? I could be wrong? other hypothesis are welcome? I can run any module that uses Wlan 1 it works perfectly for 30 minutes and then the pineapple reboots. -Tp Quote
kyhwana Posted May 6, 2013 Posted May 6, 2013 Disabling the watchdog process has stopped the random reboots for me (2.8.0). Run "/etc/init.d/watchdog stop" to disable it.. or chmod -x /etc/init.d/watchdog to disable it permanently. (You can do chmod +x /etc/init.dwatchdog to renable it on boot) Quote
TwistedPacket Posted May 6, 2013 Author Posted May 6, 2013 Disabling the watchdog process has stopped the random reboots for me (2.8.0). Run "/etc/init.d/watchdog stop" to disable it.. or chmod -x /etc/init.d/watchdog to disable it permanently. (You can do chmod +x /etc/init.dwatchdog to renable it on boot) Will try that when I get home! -Tp Quote
Foxtrot Posted May 6, 2013 Posted May 6, 2013 Will try that when I get home! -Tp killing the Watchdog indeed works, but your pineapple can get very very unresponsive as I just tested :p -Foxtrot Quote
Sebkinne Posted May 6, 2013 Posted May 6, 2013 killing the Watchdog indeed works, but your pineapple can get very very unresponsive as I just tested :P -Foxtrot And that is the reason we have it enabled ;) No, in all seriousness, the watchdog is there to protect the system - while it may help in some cases, turning it off isn't a good idea. Quote
Foxtrot Posted May 6, 2013 Posted May 6, 2013 Maybe it could be slightly modified, maybe to increase the shutdown load limit or whatever... -Foxtrot Quote
TwistedPacket Posted May 6, 2013 Author Posted May 6, 2013 Maybe it could be slightly modified, maybe to increase the shutdown load limit or whatever... -Foxtrot That is a great idea! -Tp Quote
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