1 The following is a demonstration of the pidpersec.d script.
4 Here the program is run on an idle system,
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15 This shows that there are now new processes being created.
19 Now the script is run on a busy system, that is creating many processes
20 (which happen to be short-lived),
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31 Now we can see that there are over 10 new processes created each second.
32 The value for lastpid confirms the rates printed.