Feature #24
Watchdog for LiveCD
| Status: | Closed | Start: | 02/15/2009 | |
| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | 04/06/2009 | |
| Assigned to: |  Sergey Matveev |
% Done: | 100% |
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| Category: | Live CD | |||
| Target version: | 3.1 | |||
Description
It would be nice always have simple "visual watchdog" feature in LiveCD. I.e. when running any tests, it should always output some sort of changing characters to the screen in periodic intervals.
It can be simple ticker (i.e. rotating dash -\|/) or it can be current time or something like that. This way, if the machine would hang due to hardware instability, the screen will freeze and one will notice it.
History
Updated by Sergey Matveev 1040 days ago
- Due date set to 04/06/2009
- Assigned to set to Sergey Matveev
Updated by Sergey Matveev 1040 days ago
I think that we can use GNU Screen to horizontally split screen on big main window and small additional informational one. There we can print date or beautiful rotating dash to show some kind of heartbeating. Using rotating dash we can output different other lines, having that dash at the very end.
I think that it would be nice to report test starting/finishing and benchmark submitting events to this additional screen (for example via FIFO file). Maybe monitorings submits will be useful here too.
Updated by Sergey Matveev 936 days ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100