Comment 9 for bug 1696970

> and/or failing. Imho, one shouldn't be killing journald, when it is otherwise obviously
> operating fine (aka waiting to be run).

@xnox: How do you tell if there is no live lock and it is operating fine despite it timed out on a 3 minute timer?

> I'm concerned as to why there is a watchdog on journald now. It should be rocksolid,
> and either work or crash, there is no need to crash it on a fixed schedule just because.

If we drop the watchdog we won't get any new journal entries if it enters/tricked into an infinite loop. I don't think that would be wise.

There are upstream bugs with too little information for similar issues:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2899
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2924

@xnox Do you have links with enough info for debugging?