# Watchdog and dietpi v10.5.2 unexpeced reboot while using the sdcard
**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/watchdog-and-dietpi-v10-5-2-unexpeced-reboot-while-using-the-sdcard/25487
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [13 September 2026 22:12 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/watchdog-and-dietpi-v10-5-2-unexpeced-reboot-while-using-the-sdcard/25487 "2026-09-13T22:12:26Z")
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### Author:  [@luisimasd](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/luisimasd)
#### Post date: [13 September 2026 22:12 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/watchdog-and-dietpi-v10-5-2-unexpeced-reboot-while-using-the-sdcard/25487/1 "2026-09-13T22:12:26Z")
Not sure if someone else found this issue but I have this configuration:
watchdog.conf:
```auto
watchdog-device = /dev/watchdog
watchdog-timeout = 180
watchdog-refresh-use-settimeout = auto
interval = 10
realtime = yes
priority = 1
min-memory = 12800
allocatable-memory = 1
```
Platform Pi 3b+
Observed and steps:
apt update (ok)
apt-get upgrade -y (unexpected reboot)
apt autoremove (unexpected reboot)
Disabled watchdog via systemctl… then the reboot is not there.
Any comments or feedback? any idea is appreciated.
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### Author:  [@luisimasd](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/luisimasd)
#### Post date: [13 September 2026 22:54 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/watchdog-and-dietpi-v10-5-2-unexpeced-reboot-while-using-the-sdcard/25487/2 "2026-09-13T22:54:46Z")
it seems the interval value is hardcoded in the hw with 15seconds
The operations on the sdcard block the refresh of the watchdog, exceeding the 15seconds, triggering the restart. As a potential workaround I increased the priority for the watchdog, that is working ok so far.
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### Author:  [@luisimasd](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/luisimasd)
#### Post date: [14 September 2026 17:19 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/watchdog-and-dietpi-v10-5-2-unexpeced-reboot-while-using-the-sdcard/25487/3 "2026-09-14T17:19:56Z")
Well, increased the priority didn’t work. Anyone there with the same issue? any idea to solve this?
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### Author:  [@luisimasd](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/luisimasd)
#### Post date: [16 September 2026 09:04 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/watchdog-and-dietpi-v10-5-2-unexpeced-reboot-while-using-the-sdcard/25487/4 "2026-09-16T09:04:12Z")
nah, config issue in my side on the watchdog.conf. My bad
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### Author:  [@Jappe](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Jappe)
#### Post date: [16 September 2026 17:58 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/watchdog-and-dietpi-v10-5-2-unexpeced-reboot-while-using-the-sdcard/25487/5 "2026-09-16T17:58:55Z")
Are you willing to share what was falsely configured? 🙂
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### Author:  [@luisimasd](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/luisimasd)
#### Post date: [16 September 2026 18:34 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/watchdog-and-dietpi-v10-5-2-unexpeced-reboot-while-using-the-sdcard/25487/6 "2026-09-16T18:34:14Z")
Basically I was using 12800 instead of 1280 (@80mb-75 mb free) on the free memory check, so my pi 3b+ 1gb ram was rebooted due to that, 12800 means 800mb of free memory and i was below that value when I was playing around with the `apt` command. The final valid configuration file is:
```auto
# cat /etc/watchdog.conf | egrep -v "#"
watchdog-device = /dev/watchdog
watchdog-timeout = 15
watchdog-refresh-use-settimeout = no
interval = 2
realtime = yes
priority = 1
min-memory = 1280
allocatable-memory = 1
```
Can be checked with “`wdctl`” command