BUG: nagios3 not closing filehandles for checkresult spoolfiles

Christoph Maser cmr at financial.com
Mon Apr 14 08:09:50 CEST 2008


For me this prolem vanished with 3.0.1

Chris
Am Sonntag, den 13.04.2008, 22:55 +0200 schrieb Ethan Galstad:
> Alessandro Ren wrote:
> >     I have a similiar problems with nagios 3 and 3rc3, could not locate
> > yet why this happens.
> >
> >     []s.
> >
> > Christoph Maser wrote:
> >> Hi list
> >>
> >> we are testing nagios3 and since the release of the final version we
> >> encountered a massive problem. Once a day nagios stops working
> >> correctly. Log file ist full of:
> >>
> >> -----
> >> [$timesatmp] Warning: The check of service '$SERVICE' on host '$HOST'
> >> could not be performed due to a fork() error.  The check will be
> >> rescheduled.
> >> -----
> >>
> >>
> >> After a restart of nagios everything works fine again. I have checked
> >> the checkresult-spool-dir and found tons of _old_ files. When the
> >> problem occurs nagios has open 1024 FHs most of them (> 1000) for
> >> checkresult files. Of course 1024 is the open files limit for my nagios
> >> user.
> >>
> >> This problem occurs every day and it started exactly with the install of
> >> 3.0 final. We where running 3.0rc3 before and did not have any problems.
> >>
> >> When i look at the process from time to time i do not see a list of FHs
> >> building up slowly so i assume that there is some "event" which is
> >> trigging this malfunction.
> >>
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
>
> Is anyone else encountering this error?  I'm not seeing anything obvious
> in the diffs that would have caused this problem post 3.0rc3.
>
>
> Ethan Galstad
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