How to force a thread to stop

[H J van Rooyen]

"Alex Martelli" <aleax at mac.com> Wrote:


| H J van Rooyen <mail at microcorp.co.za> wrote:
|
| > "Paul Rubin" <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> Writes:
| >
| > | "H J van Rooyen" <mail at microcorp.co.za> writes:
| > | > *grin* - Yes of course - if the WDT was enabled - its something that
| > | > I have not seen on PC's yet...
| > |
| > | They are available for PC's, as plug-in cards, at least for the ISA
| > | bus in the old days, and almost certainly for the PCI bus today.
| >
| > That is cool, I was not aware of this - added to a long running server it
will
| > help to make the system more stable - a hardware solution to hard to find
bugs
| > in Software - (or even stuff like soft errors in hardware - speak to the
| > Avionics boys about Neutrons) do you know who sells them and what they are
| > called? -
|
| When you're talking about a bunch of (multiprocessing) machines on a
| LAN, you can have a "watchdog machine" (or more than one, for
| redundancy) periodically checking all others for signs of health -- and,
| if needed, rebooting the sick machines via ssh (assuming the sickness is
| in userland, of course -- to come back from a kernel panic _would_
| require HW support)... so (in this setting) you _could_ do it in SW, and
| save the $100+ per box that you'd have to spend at some shop such as
| <http://www.pcwatchdog.com/> or the like...
|
|
| Alex

Thanks - will check it out - seems a lot of money for 555 functionality
though....

Especially if like I, you have to pay for it with Rand - I have started to call
the local currency Runt...

(Typical South African Knee Jerk Reaction - everything is too expensive here...
:- )  )

- Hendrik