Re: [pcp] question about the "root" PMDA

[Lukas Berk <lberk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ken,

Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Can anyone explain this that I'm seeing on Mac OS X ...
[...]
> Specifically, ... why are there two pmdasimple processes, one launched by 
> pmcd and one launched by pmdaroot?
> I've also seen (with an Internet socket), an old zombie pmdasimple
> process that was launched by pmdaroot, so why is pmdaroot not watching
> its children and harvesting them when they exit?
>
> This does not happen on Linux.

I can't (yet) test on Mac OSX, as I don't have PCP setup on a macbook
that I was gifted for the buildbot.  I'm surprised that pmdaroot is
installed on OSX though, I thought pmdaroot was supposed to be linux
only at this point?

Will take a closer look when I get a chance (and get PCP setup properly
from sources).

Cheers,

Lukas