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Werk #1084: ps: now able to handle bigger process groups without constant MKCounterWrapped Exceptions

Component Checks & agents
Title ps: now able to handle bigger process groups without constant MKCounterWrapped Exceptions
Date Jul 21, 2014
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.2.5i5 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

When a monitored process group got to many volatile processes (processes spawn/despawn)
the ps check had troubles to run through because there were multiple MKCounterWrapped Exceptions for each new process.

This has been fixed. A newly detected process starts with usertime and kerneltime delta-values of 0.

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