<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>However, the result is that you can't do a restart on Solaris 10 with SMF if you are using vmstat. I have patched my scripts on Solaris to kill the child processes.<br><br><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">____ *Note: UMDNJ is now Rutgers-Biomedical and Health Sciences*<br>|| \\UTGERS |---------------------*O*---------------------<br>||_// Biomedical | Ryan Novosielski - Senior Technologist<br>|| \\ and Health | <a href="mailto:novosirj@rutgers.edu" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">novosirj@rutgers.edu</a>- 973/972.0922 (2x0922)<br>|| \\ Sciences | OIRT/High Perf & Res Comp - MSB C630, Newark<br> `'</span></div><div><br>On Feb 26, 2015, at 13:17, John Thurston <<a href="mailto:john.thurston@alaska.gov">john.thurston@alaska.gov</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>On 2/26/2015 9:14 AM, Mark Felder wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>~~ I can't verify on other OSes right now, so I'm hoping someone can</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>chime in ~~</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On FreeBSD when I stop the Xymon client process it doesn't clean up all</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>of its children. Primarily you'll find that the vmstat command is not</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>sent a signal and continues to run ... indefinitely?</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>I have observed this behavior on Solaris, but the vmstat does eventually </span><br><span>disappear. It does not run forever.</span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span> Do things because you should, not just because you can.</span><br><span></span><br><span>John Thurston 907-465-8591</span><br><span><a href="mailto:John.Thurston@alaska.gov">John.Thurston@alaska.gov</a></span><br><span>Enterprise Technology Services</span><br><span>Department of Administration</span><br><span>State of Alaska</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Xymon mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com">Xymon@xymon.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon">http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>