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> Personally I would prefer my pacemaker to miscount a beat than shutdown completely... A panic doesn't imply shutting down. If my api panics a system above it
by dmm 4y ago
> Personally I would prefer my pacemaker to miscount a beat than shutdown completely...
A panic doesn't imply shutting down. If my api panics a system above it(systemd, docker, k8s) restarts the api from a known good state.
Memory corruption can do much worse.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoOr a hardware watchdog. "A system above it" doesn't have to be software.
- salawat 4y agoCool, what'a above the kernel? Note: Hypervisor is not the right answer.
- flumpcakes 4y agoWhen an OS kernel panics it usually means some kind of catastrophic loss, often requiring a reboot. Precisely because the Linux kernel tries to continue in all cases. As Linus has made quite direct comments on this: a language with run time panics will not be accepted into the Linux kernel.