[ClusterLabs] Q: What is the meaning of "sbd: [19541]: info: Watchdog enabled."

[Ulrich Windl]

Hi!

Since an update of sbd in SLES11 SP4 (sbd-1.2.1-0.12.1), I see frequent syslog messages like these (grep "Watchdog enabled." /var/log/messages):
Jan 13 00:01:01 h02 sbd: [19373]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:01:01 h02 sbd: [19380]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:04:02 h02 sbd: [21740]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:04:02 h02 sbd: [21747]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:07:04 h02 sbd: [24073]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:07:04 h02 sbd: [24080]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:10:05 h02 sbd: [26381]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:10:05 h02 sbd: [26388]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:13:06 h02 sbd: [28748]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:13:06 h02 sbd: [28755]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:16:07 h02 sbd: [31066]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:16:07 h02 sbd: [31073]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:19:08 h02 sbd: [1000]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:19:08 h02 sbd: [1008]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:22:09 h02 sbd: [3377]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:22:09 h02 sbd: [3388]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:25:10 h02 sbd: [5777]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:25:10 h02 sbd: [5784]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:28:11 h02 sbd: [8157]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:28:11 h02 sbd: [8166]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:31:13 h02 sbd: [10453]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:31:13 h02 sbd: [10460]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:34:14 h02 sbd: [12909]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:34:14 h02 sbd: [12916]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:37:15 h02 sbd: [15244]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:37:15 h02 sbd: [15251]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:40:16 h02 sbd: [17661]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:40:16 h02 sbd: [17669]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:43:17 h02 sbd: [20020]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:43:17 h02 sbd: [20027]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:46:19 h02 sbd: [22332]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:46:19 h02 sbd: [22338]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:49:20 h02 sbd: [24679]: info: Watchdog enabled.
Jan 13 00:49:20 h02 sbd: [24686]: info: Watchdog enabled.
[...]

It seems some process is started (new PID), but why? Is it a bug, maybe?

Regards,
Ulrich

Regards,
Ulrich