How to force a thread to stop

[H J van Rooyen]

"Carl J. Van Arsdall" <cvanarsdall at mvista.com> wrote:


| Alex Martelli 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...
| >
| >
| >
| Yea, there are other free solutions you might want to check out, I've
| been looking at ganglia and nagios.  These require constant
| communication with a server, however they are customizable in that you
| can have the server take action on various events.
|
| Cheers!
|
| -c
 Thanks - will have a look - Hendrik