[maemo-developers] N810 Resets

[From: Alex Iliadis]

Yeah, it's running as root, but it's a python script. After running top to 
monitor it's memory usage it was ranging from 35-55MB. Let me know if you 
need any further details.

-Alex


On Wednesday 12 December 2007 12:38:18 pm you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ext Alex Iliadis wrote:
> > I suspected it was the watchdog which was doing software resets. Here
> > is the output of the results:
> >
> > /proc/bootreason
> > 32wd_to
> >
> > 32wd_to:
> > 5
>
> ...
>
> > After that I decided to disable the lifeguard resets in the device by
> > using the flasher tool:
> > flasher --set-rd-flags=no-lifeguard-reset -R
>
> 32wd_to is the device HW watchdog reboot, not the SW watchdog one.
>
> > (side note: the device was in r&d mode in both runs)
> >
> > Unfortunately I ended up having the same exact result, the device
> > rebooted while running my python script. I also enabled core files to
> > see if it was an application crashing but that didn't turn out to be
> > the case since there were no core's generated. Furthermore I installed
> > sysklogd to see if there will be any time to save error messages prior
> > the reset but nothing useful was in the logs. I would appreciate any
> > pointers on debugging this issue.
>
> Are you running your script as root?  And if yes, how much memory
> it's using?  (root processes are protected from OOM-killing i.e.
> like on any Linux device, root can mess the system)
>
>
>
> 	- Eero