Monit pid reporting

[Son Nguyen - ad-rotator.com]

Hi,

 

I was wondering if the PID used to identify the process is the parent process? If so, then what about the resources being used by its children/threads? Since I was having problem with monit could not detect the resource usage of mysqld:

 

"monit status" reported:

- Process 'mysqld' is running with pid [1436] Uptime: 9d 17h 36m  CPU: 0.0% Memory: 1.2% [6476kB]

"top" reported:

1433 mysql     14   0 75008 6476  3152 R    94.1  1.2 243:14 mysqld

which has PID[1433] and uses CPU: 94.1% and Memory: 1.2% (which is shared)

 

Any help appreciated

Son Nguyen