[Xymon] Xymon client doesn't clean up all of its children

[Galen Johnson]

The vmstat is set to run for 5 minutes.  It is a forked process.  I see it on all unix systems that I've run Xymon on.  I usually ignore it or just kill it.  As John said, it doesn't run forever.

=G=

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From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of John Thurston <john.thurston at alaska.gov>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 1:17 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon client doesn't clean up all of its children

On 2/26/2015 9:14 AM, Mark Felder wrote:
> ~~ I can't verify on other OSes right now, so I'm hoping someone can
> chime in ~~
>
> On FreeBSD when I stop the Xymon client process it doesn't clean up all
> of its children. Primarily you'll find that the vmstat command is not
> sent a signal and continues to run ... indefinitely?

I have observed this behavior on Solaris, but the vmstat does eventually
disappear. It does not run forever.

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State of Alaska
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