humbolt robustness tested

[Rik van Riel <riel@humbolt.geo.uu.nl>]

Hi,

<insert ashamed emoticon here> While playing a bit with
humbolt (remote, mind you!) I su()d to root and was testing
a few performance things.

Then I accidentally switched on 'I/O support' with hdparm and
<BANG> the machine crashes at friday evening...

Luckily I had the softdog driver compiled in so the machine
was back online with all functions working properly in about
4 minutes.

For all other system functions a similar watchdog function
is built in (all daemons are started from a special monitor
instead of from /etc/rc.d/*) so the rest of the system should
be just as safe...

Guess I have now (accidentally) proven that Humbolt's
config is crashproof.  And even better -- I got away
with it :)  [phew, I am really relieved that it worked]

happy 1999,

Rik -- If a Microsoft product fails, who do you sue?
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