I'd wager that it might have more to do with your network speed. With a slow enough network Modrana will spend enough time idle to allow the watchdog to recover.

I've never had a spontaneous reboot during Modrana downloads but I've had a lot of symptoms described in post #1497. This on devices with all sorts of configuration: stock, CSSU, swap on SD... makes no difference. If I leave it on its own for long enough (like 30 minutes or more), it wil get to the stage when the device appears completely dead and takes minutes to react to anything. Some people may not be that patient and may hust take the battery out - as I did once with inevitable consequences on the FS.

I guess if my network connection were any faster then I might even experience reboots like sixwheeledbeast.

Easy Debian is similar. I've never experienced reboots during large downloads but I have experienced them while copying the entire ED directory in one go. I've resolved it by either copying it in smaller chunks or by smacking 'nice' in front of 'cp'.