Hi guys,
----- Original Message -----
> 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?
(not sure - it does harvest its children on Linux though, and should on
all platforms? - pmcd orchestrates this as part of its shutdown/restart
process via PDUs to pmdaroot)
> > 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?
Its enabled on anything that has AF_UNIX, IIRC.
> Will take a closer look when I get a chance (and get PCP setup properly
> from sources).
cheers.
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Nathan
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