Disable watch dog
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Description
I was looking at the processes taking up memory on my linux vm which I use to serve a few shiny apps using renv. I noticed that each one has an accompanied renv watch dog process. I suspect the watchdog is used to watch for changes to the package environment.
Is it possible to 1) document what the watchdog processes do and 2) disable them?
For 2) I think this can be accomplished by setting RENV_WATCHDOG_ENABLED=false, is that right?
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Research direction
Start by tracing the renv watchdog process and checking how the RENV_WATCHDOG_ENABLED setting is handled. Confirm what the watchdog does, whether that setting disables it, and document both the behavior and configuration so the requested process control is clear.
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- r
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- tooling
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- Feature
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