Oracle Documentation
Solaris 10 Common Desktop Environment User Collection Chapter 19 Using Process Manager
Ways to Automatically Execute System Tasks.
prstat (1M)
signal.h (3HEAD)
kill (1)
blogs:
Richard McDougall's Weblog Using prstat to estimate memory slow-downs
other:
From Brendan Gregg's site, this document takes the reader through a examination of Suns' prstat(1M) and the open source top command using dtrace.
The Sun Developers Article written for Solaris 8 but is still a good introduction to the prstat command Topping top in Solaris 8 with prstat
PCP is a script that enables administrators to see what open TCP ports are in use on a Solaris system.
Vic Abell's Home Page, author of Unix administrative tool lsof (for LiSt Open Files) which displays information about files open to Unix processes.
To display various statistics for processes and projects that are currently running on your system, use the prstat command with the -J option:
% prstat -J
PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
21634 jtd 5512K 4848K cpu0 44 0 0:00.00 0.3% prstat/1
324 root 29M 75M sleep 59 0 0:08.27 0.2% Xsun/1
15497 jtd 48M 41M sleep 49 0 0:08.26 0.1% adeptedit/1
328 root 2856K 2600K sleep 58 0 0:00.00 0.0% mibiisa/11
1979 jtd 1568K 1352K sleep 49 0 0:00.00 0.0% csh/1
1977 jtd 7256K 5512K sleep 49 0 0:00.00 0.0% dtterm/1
192 root 3680K 2856K sleep 58 0 0:00.36 0.0% automountd/5
1845 jtd 24M 22M sleep 49 0 0:00.29 0.0% dtmail/11
1009 jtd 9864K 8384K sleep 49 0 0:00.59 0.0% dtwm/8
114 root 1640K 704K sleep 58 0 0:01.16 0.0% in.routed/1
180 daemon 2704K 1944K sleep 58 0 0:00.00 0.0% statd/4
145 root 2120K 1520K sleep 58 0 0:00.00 0.0% ypbind/1
181 root 1864K 1336K sleep 51 0 0:00.00 0.0% lockd/1
173 root 2584K 2136K sleep 58 0 0:00.00 0.0% inetd/1
135 root 2960K 1424K sleep 0 0 0:00.00 0.0% keyserv/4
PROJID NPROC SIZE RSS MEMORY TIME CPU PROJECT
10 52 400M 271M 68% 0:11.45 0.4% booksite
0 35 113M 129M 32% 0:10.46 0.2% system
Total: 87 processes, 205 lwps, load averages: 0.05, 0.02, 0.02
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To display various statistics for processes and tasks that are currently running on your system, use the prstat command with the -T option:
% prstat -T
PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
23023 root 26M 20M sleep 59 0 0:03:18 0.6% Xsun/1
23476 jtd 51M 45M sleep 49 0 0:04:31 0.5% adeptedit/1
23432 jtd 6928K 5064K sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0.1% dtterm/1
28959 jtd 26M 18M sleep 49 0 0:00:18 0.0% .netscape.bin/1
23116 jtd 9232K 8104K sleep 59 0 0:00:27 0.0% dtwm/5
29010 jtd 5144K 4664K cpu0 59 0 0:00:00 0.0% prstat/1
200 root 3096K 1024K sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0.0% lpsched/1
161 root 2120K 1600K sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0.0% lockd/2
170 root 5888K 4248K sleep 59 0 0:03:10 0.0% automountd/3
132 root 2120K 1408K sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0.0% ypbind/1
162 daemon 2504K 1936K sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0.0% statd/2
146 root 2560K 2008K sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0.0% inetd/1
122 root 2336K 1264K sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0.0% keyserv/2
119 root 2336K 1496K sleep 59 0 0:00:02 0.0% rpcbind/1
104 root 1664K 672K sleep 59 0 0:00:03 0.0% in.rdisc/1
TASKID NPROC SIZE RSS MEMORY TIME CPU PROJECT
222 30 229M 161M 44% 0:05:54 0.6% group.staff
223 1 26M 20M 5.3% 0:03:18 0.6% group.staff
12 1 61M 33M 8.9% 0:00:31 0.0% group.staff
1 33 85M 53M 14% 0:03:33 0.0% system
Total: 65 processes, 154 lwps, load averages: 0.04, 0.05, 0.06
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The signals currently defined by <signal.h> are as follows:
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Name
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Value
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Default
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Event
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SIGHUP
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1
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Exit
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Hangup (see termio(7I))
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SIGINT
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2
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Exit
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Interrupt (see termio(7I))
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SIGQUIT
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3
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Core
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Quit (see termio(7I))
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SIGILL
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4
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Core
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Illegal Instruction
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SIGTRAP
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5
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Core
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Trace or Breakpoint Trap
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SIGABRT
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6
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Core
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Abort
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SIGEMT
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7
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Core
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Emulation Trap
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SIGFPE
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8
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Core
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Arithmetic Exception
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SIGKILL
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9
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Exit
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Killed
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SIGBUS
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10
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Core
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Bus Error
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SIGSEGV
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11
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Core
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Segmentation Fault
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SIGSYS
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12
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Core
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Bad System Call
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SIGPIPE
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13
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Exit
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Broken Pipe
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SIGALRM
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14
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Exit
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Alarm Clock
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SIGTERM
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15
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Exit
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Terminated
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SIGUSR1
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16
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Exit
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User Signal 1
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SIGUSR2
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17
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Exit
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User Signal 2
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SIGCHLD
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18
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Ignore
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Child Status Changed
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SIGPWR
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19
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Ignore
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Power Fail or Restart
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SIGWINCH
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20
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Ignore
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Window Size Change
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SIGURG
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21
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Ignore
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Urgent Socket Condition
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SIGPOLL
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22
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Exit
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Pollable Event (see streamio(7I))
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SIGSTOP
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23
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Stop
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Stopped (signal)
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SIGTSTP
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24
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Stop
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Stopped (user) (see termio(7I))
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SIGCONT
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25
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Ignore
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Continued
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SIGTTIN
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26
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Stop
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Stopped (tty input) (see termio(7I))
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SIGTTOU
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27
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Stop
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Stopped (tty output) (see termio(7I))
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SIGVTALRM
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28
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Exit
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Virtual Timer Expired
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SIGPROF
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29
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Exit
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Profiling Timer Expired
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SIGXCPU
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30
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Core
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CPU time limit exceeded (see getrlimit(2))
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SIGXFSZ
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31
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Core
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File size limit exceeded (see getrlimit(2))
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SIGWAITING
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32
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Ignore
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Reserved
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SIGLWP
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33
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Ignore
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Reserved
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SIGFREEZE
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34
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Ignore
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Check point Freeze
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SIGTHAW
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35
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Ignore
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Check point Thaw
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SIGCANCEL
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36
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Ignore
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Reserved for threading support
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SIGLOST
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37
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Exit
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Resource lost (for example, record–lock lost)
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SIGXRES
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38
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Ignore
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Resource control exceeded (see setrctl(2))
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SIGJVM1
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39
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Ignore
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Reserved for Java Virtual Machine 1
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SIGJVM2
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40
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Ignore
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Reserved for Java Virtual Machine 2
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SIGRTMIN
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*
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Exit
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First real time signal
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(SIGRTMIN+1)
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*
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Exit
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Second real time signal
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. . .
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(SIGRTMAX-1)
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*
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Exit
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Second-to-last real time signal
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SIGRTMAX
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*
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Exit
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Last real time signal
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