> On 18 Feb 2019, at 10:36, Peter P. <[email protected]> wrote: > > * michael strohmann <[email protected]> [2019-02-18 10:22]: >> good morning, > Guten Morgen! > > I know you didn't want this answer, but, is there a chance you can > figure out why you are getting the watchdog message in Pd in the first > hand place?
yes, i think/hope i found the reason (network related) but still would be happy to have a safetynet. can only access wiringPI_gpio in sudo mode (raspberry…) is it that bad to run pd as superuser? > > Did you already check the results of > aptitude search watchdog >> >> is it possible to automatically restart pd (or the computer) whenever i get >> watchdog: signaling pd >> ? >> >> in other words: what would be the proper way to monitor a linux system and >> act upon e.g. CPU usage greater than xy% ? >> does anyone have experience with ps-watcher? >> http://ps-watcher.sourceforge.net <http://ps-watcher.sourceforge.net/> > I just found these: > https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RT_Watchdog > >> i need help understanding this description of the pd-watchdog >> >> s_watchdog.c is the source of pd-watchdog, which was spawned in >> sys_startgui(). pd-watchdog monitors its stdin for any input, timing out >> after 5 seconds if nothing was received. In this case it kills pd with a >> SIGHUP, but normally it will continue looping as long as characters are >> received from pd' at a rate of at least one every 5 seconds. So if >> pdtk_watchdog calls pd every 2 seconds and glob_watchdog() sends a CR each >> time through the pipe, everything runs smoothly. >> >> >> "pd-watchdog monitors its stdin for any input” does this also work if i >> start pd with -stderr >2/dev/null ? >> is the fact that i run pd as superuser responsible for pd NOT beeing killed >> by SIGHUP ? > Please forgive me, but why do you run Pd as root? Do you really need to > do so? > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
