On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Mehul Ved <mehul.n....@gmail.com> wrote: > This is something I found today > Dec 18 16:23:35 www postfix/pickup[23157]: fatal: watchdog timeout > Dec 19 00:52:16 www postfix/pickup[25514]: fatal: watchdog timeout > Dec 19 05:35:47 www postfix/smtp[27520]: fatal: watchdog timeout > Dec 19 06:38:43 www postfix/local[27540]: fatal: watchdog timeout > Dec 19 18:44:43 www postfix/smtp[30674]: fatal: watchdog timeout > Dec 19 18:46:35 www postfix/local[30718]: fatal: watchdog timeout > Dec 20 05:58:06 www postfix/local[30381]: fatal: watchdog timeout > Dec 20 10:46:21 www postfix/pickup[30721]: fatal: watchdog timeout > Dec 20 15:29:42 www postfix/local[31411]: fatal: watchdog timeout > Dec 20 15:33:50 www postfix/smtp[367]: fatal: watchdog timeout > Dec 20 20:12:54 www postfix/pickup[17393]: fatal: watchdog timeout > Dec 21 06:04:25 www postfix/local[939]: fatal: watchdog timeout > Dec 21 13:35:57 www postfix/pickup[16348]: fatal: watchdog timeout > Dec 21 16:50:13 www postfix/pickup[4898]: fatal: watchdog timeout > > And the timing of the first problem coincides with when the problem started. > So, it turns out I was looking at the wrong thing. I need to find out > now as to why I am getting this error.
To add to that, when postfix is running, the server load spikes up to around 120 as reported by top.