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.
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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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