Comment 21 for bug 1008385

Hello Jan,

Something very weird is happening. It now works:

# snmpwalk -v 1 localhost -c public .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.2
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prIndex.1 = INTEGER: 1
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prIndex.2 = INTEGER: 2
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prIndex.3 = INTEGER: 3
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prNames.1 = STRING: httpd
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prNames.2 = STRING: smbd
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prNames.3 = STRING: sshd
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prMin.1 = INTEGER: 1
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prMin.2 = INTEGER: 1
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prMin.3 = INTEGER: 1
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prMax.1 = INTEGER: 30
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prMax.2 = INTEGER: 25
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prMax.3 = INTEGER: 20
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prCount.1 = INTEGER: 4
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prCount.2 = INTEGER: 2
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prCount.3 = INTEGER: 7
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrorFlag.1 = INTEGER: noError(0)
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrorFlag.2 = INTEGER: noError(0)
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrorFlag.3 = INTEGER: noError(0)
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrMessage.1 = STRING:
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrMessage.2 = STRING:
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrMessage.3 = STRING:
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrFix.1 = INTEGER: noError(0)
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrFix.2 = INTEGER: noError(0)
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrFix.3 = INTEGER: noError(0)
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrFixCmd.1 = STRING:
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrFixCmd.2 = STRING:
UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrFixCmd.3 = STRING:

but only for an Apache started as normal user having 4 processes. The system processes are not calculated:

# ps -ef | grep -i httpd
root 1044 1 0 10:39 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 1047 1044 0 10:39 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 1048 1044 0 10:39 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 1049 1044 0 10:39 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 1050 1044 0 10:39 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 1051 1044 0 10:39 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 1052 1044 0 10:39 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 1053 1044 0 10:39 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 1054 1044 0 10:39 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
n-lex 6274 1 0 12:24 ? 00:00:00 /home/n-lex/tools/bin/httpd -f /home/n-lex/natlex_utils/Nat-Lex_perlsoap/conf/soap_httpd.conf
n-lex 6275 6274 0 12:24 ? 00:00:00 /home/n-lex/tools/bin/httpd -f /home/n-lex/natlex_utils/Nat-Lex_perlsoap/conf/soap_httpd.conf
n-lex 6276 6274 0 12:24 ? 00:00:00 /home/n-lex/tools/bin/httpd -f /home/n-lex/natlex_utils/Nat-Lex_perlsoap/conf/soap_httpd.conf
n-lex 6277 6274 0 12:24 ? 00:00:00 /home/n-lex/tools/bin/httpd -f /home/n-lex/natlex_utils/Nat-Lex_perlsoap/conf/soap_httpd.conf

# id apache
uid=48(apache) gid=48(apache) groups=48(apache)
# id n-lex
uid=503(n-lex) gid=100(users) groups=100(users)

The system's apache server is run at boot time, my PC is always turned on 24/7 and only restarts may occur. As I can see from my MRTG graphs for httpd processes run every 5 minutes, it was unable to count ever the system's httpd processes, but only that development httpd.