Is the linux userspace qualified to trigger a watchdog?

Discussion in 'Programming/Scripts' started by 00schneider, Feb 14, 2012.

  1. 00schneider

    00schneider New Member

    Hello,

    On my embedded board I have a watchdog which does a reset when it is not triggered longer than 1.5 seconds. I have a kernel module that controls that watchdog and I have the opportunity to trigger the watchdog from userspace via sysctl.
    From time to time the board makes a reset (by watchdog) and I don't exactly know why.

    I wrote a little program in userspace which contains nothing but a usleep(50) and time measurement before and after the operation (with clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &mytime) ) and over 5 days I measured maximum values about 3 seconds.

    So my question is: Is the linux userspace qualified at all to trigger a watchdog?
     
  2. till

    till Super Moderator Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

    Have you tried to set a higher priority of your application with the "nice" command?
     

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