On Thu, February 26, 2015 12:10 pm, Mark Felder wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015, at 13:33, J.C. Cleaver wrote:
What would you folks think?
I don't have much of an opinion. On FreeBSD I just pushed an update to "pkill -U $xymon_client_user vmstat" so it cleans up on a stop/restart.
I swear I saw the vmstat live on longer than 5 minutes, but maybe I need to do some more formal testing. It appears that the command is:
vmstat 300 2
but on FreeBSD that means it updates/prints new output every 300 seconds and the 2 means two intervals, so I guess the max time it will run is 10 minutes / 600 seconds?
Interesting. I guess that makes it similar to AIX in that regards.
http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2014-September/040192.html
We should clarify this on each supported OS. On RHEL5, "vmstat 10 2" gives me:
-bash-3.2$ vmstat 10 2 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------ r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 0 0 312 9461348 203472 84676768 0 0 34 319 0 0 4 1 94 0 0
(wait 10 seconds)
1 0 312 9466564 203472 84677632 0 0 51 5290 3138 8928 3 2 95 0 0
(exit)
-jc