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 ==== Quiet Boot ====
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-===== Watch Dog Function =====
+==== Watch Dog Function ====
+Remain in the “Advanced → Boot Feature” page and select “Watch Dog Function”.
+The watch dog function serves to reboot the server if it experiences an error it cannot recover from (and so hangs) for more than 5 minutes. It works by starting a 5 minute count-down timer when the server hangs. When this timer reaches zero the system is forced to reboot.
+When I first tried this in FreeNAS it caused my system to spontaneously reboot every 5 minutes even though the system was not hanging, so I disabled it.
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 ===== AES-NI Encryption =====