SMP SANITY CNT

From VSI OpenVMS Wiki
Jump to: navigation, search

SMP_SANITY_CNT is a system parameter that establishes, in 10-millisecond intervals, the timeout period for each CPU in a symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) system. Each CPU in an SMP system monitors the sanity timer of one other CPU in the configuration to detect hardware or software failures. If allowed to go undetected, these failures could cause the cluster to hang. A timeout causes a CPUSANITY bugcheck. The default value is 300 milliseconds (30 10-millisecond intervals).