SunMC - Process is forking and reaping child processes. What's that?

Hey folks,
Im really new to the sysadmin world, and I think maybe my company really didn't think things well when they've decided to put me doing this, hehehe.
I work with a general queue for which my team receives tickets with different kind of problems, among them, Automation Alerts (I think you all know what Im talking about).
Recently (maybe 2-4 days) we've started to receive an Automation Ticket with the following message:
Solaris Process Monitoring Process Monitoring Base03 CPU
time for reaped children 107.1 30.0 Process is forking and
reaping child processes.
I've found almost nothing about this, and even when I think what's this ticket about (I've closed 2 or 3 of them stating no issues were found), I really want to understand and know where to look and if something can be done about this, because processes on the server and general state of it seems in good condition and nothing looks bad, apparently. The server is a Solaris 10 with zones.
Can you shed some light on this? I'd appreciate all the help you can give me.
Thank you and regards all.

The same thought occurred to me, except I started seeing "failure" logs in JAMF the morning after we run maintenance policies. All of these failures were due to the Mac not restarting, which isn't really a failure - more of an inconvenience - since the second part of the policy (removing eTrust antivirus and restarting is part 1, installing SEP 12.1 and restarting is part 2) runs immediately on restart no matter what time of the day it is.
In some cases the macs did not restart because the user had unsaved work or something else that would cancel logout. In this case, Casper prompts the user to restart and waits until the OK button is clicked, then counts down 1 minute and restarts. In the other case, nothing would have prevented logout yet the computer still did not logout and then restart, leading me to believe that the reason the Mac did not log out was a locked desktop, and since I am telling System Events to simulate a gui log out, this would be blocked by a locked desktop.
The problem basically stems from the following two issues: 1. I am not to force a logout or restart when a console user is logged in and 2. Casper will not automatically log a console user out on it's own OR restart the computer if a console user is logged in - and then I have to rely on the end user to follow on screen instructions since the Casper restart prompt can be moved to the side and effectively ignored.
When no restarts are required for the various policies we run, this is not an issue. And anyway, I originally just wanted to know what process is running when a desktop is asleep and locked, but no screen saver is active...

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