topic Re: what is that process ? in Operating System - HP-UX

what is that process ?

gary guo — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 06:01:39 GMT

i find a weird process in N4000,i dont know what is it ,and can i kill it :
3 ? 1035 root -16 20 14236K 13652K run 3189:01 3.97 3.96 midaemon

Re: what is that process ?

Michael Tully — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 06:10:27 GMT

midaemon is the measureware agent. You can close it down and restart it should you wish. It's mission is to collect data on your systems performance. If you don't wish to collect it turn it off.

# /sbin/init.d/mwa stop

to start again

# /sbin/init.d/mwa start

Re: what is that process ?

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 06:51:40 GMT

Personally, I'd leave it running. If you ever run into a performance issue you might want some data to measure it against.

There are of course alternatives. You can use sar to measure data when you want. I'm attaching a script. I don't think it needs measureware running, but never shut down mwa to check.

SEP

Re: what is that process ?

Vicente Sanchez_3 — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 07:26:16 GMT

Hi,
If you want that this process doesn't start at boot time, you have to change the variable MWA_START=0 in /etc/rc.config.d/mwa file.

HTH, Vicente.