[Voyage-linux] Watchdog issue
Leon Woestenberg
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Wed Apr 5 06:41:51 HKT 2006
Hello Sasa,
Sasa wrote:
> My watchdog.conf is a default file which comes with distribution and every
> minute or so i see watchdog[defunct] process, and then it dies.
>
This is normal behaviour (see the man page for Debian's watchdog);
watchdog respawns itselfs to see if the system has not run out of PID
(program identity number). The respawned watchdog will cleanup the
defunct process, if enough PIDs are available.
This repeats.
Regards,
Leon.
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