# Class Pike.Watchdog

Description

  A Watchdog that ensures that the process is not hung for an extended period of time. The definition of 'hung' is: Has not used the default backend.

  An important and useful side-effect of this class is that the process will start to respond to kill -QUIT by printing a lot of debug information to stderr, including memory usage, and if pike is compiled with profiling, the CPU used since the last time kill -QUIT was called.

Method create

  `Pike.Watchdog Pike.Watchdog(int t)`

Description

  Create a new watchdog, with the intended delay.

  Even though the actual watchdog functionality is currently not available on systems without sigalarm, such as Windows, the functionality can still be triggered by adding probe functions

See also

  add_probe() and set_delay()