Possible bug in Nagios 2.12?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Steven D. Morrey wrote:
> <snip> ________________________________________
>> From: Andreas Ericsson [ae at op5.se] Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009
>> 4:21 PM To: Nagios Developers List Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel]
>> Possible bug in Nagios 2.12?
> 
> Steven D. Morrey wrote:
>>> Thats a good point, so the better thing might be to move that
>>> check to the end of the event_list and move the even_list right
>>> along. I have some experimental code I'm working with. If you put
>>> it in above the place where it goes to sleep, it should unblock
>>> the queue and let the other checks run.
> 
>> That's a bad idea, as it would mean checks that can't be 
>> parallelized are likely to *never* run.
> </snip>
> 
> I'm not so sure thats a bad thing, at least not in our case. Say we
> have 28,000 service checks that need to run, MOST of which can run in
> parallel, but there are maybe 100 that can't. Wouldn't it be better
> to have those checks be pushed to the back of the queue, or even just
> moved up to the high priority queue, rather than causing a minimum of
> 100 seconds of check latency, and holding up the works for the rest
> of the 28,000 checks that still need to run? Just a thought.
> 

You can achieve exactly the same result by just removing those checks
from your config. With 28000 service checks there is NO chance that
that check will be accidentally run on its own, assuming your normal
check_interval is less than 8 hours.

So what was your point again?

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