Re: Software watchdog & full process table
>
> Hi,
>
> One of our network servers went down for reboot in the middle of last
> night, which was done by the software watchdog.
>
> The log message was as follows:
>
> daemon.log:Apr 10 03:15:44 seldon watchdog[102]: process table is full!
> daemon.log:Apr 10 03:15:44 seldon watchdog[102]: shutting down the system
>
>
> Does anyone know what does this mean, and what would cause this to happen?
> Is there anyway to determine what was happening on the machine?
>
Basicaly, the kernel keeps track of each process by having an entry for it in
the process table. This table is a finite resource and thus can be filled up,
so that no new process could be created.
I guess that in order to see what was the cuase of your problem, you can 1)
Take a look at the log files to see what processes were running 2) Take a look
at the cron entries. 3) Maybee there is a bug in the watchdog software ?
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