Do not enable the watchdog by default

Any administrative operation, performed using maxadmin or maxctrl,
that takes longer than the watchdog timeout will cause MaxScale to
be killed and restarted by the watchdog.
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Johan Wikman
2018-11-20 10:43:59 +02:00
parent 9263c1cf8d
commit e3ad827288
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@ -89,9 +89,13 @@ enabled and MaxScale will behave accordingly. Please see the
[documentation](Getting-Started/Configuration-Guide.md#systemd-watchdog)
for more details.
By default the watchdog timeout is 60 seconds. That is, if MaxScale is
hung, then systemd will detect that and restart MaxScale after slightly
more than 60 seconds.
By default the watchdog is disabled.
*NOTE*: In 2.3.1 there is a deficiency that manifests itself so that if
_any_ administrative operation, performed using _maxctrl_ or _maxadmin_,
takes longer that the specified watchdog timeout, then the watchdog will
kill and restart MaxScale. Please take that into account before enabling
the watchdog.
### Miscellaneous