memory usage

[Jeremy Hanmer]

I already had it at 5...tried it at 2 overnight, and it's doing better. 
Check latency is still almost a minute, but at least it's stable now
(load's hovering around 1).

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 14:51, Russell Scibetti wrote:
> I had a similar issue that I just solved.  Try reducing the 
> service_reaper_frequency.  It detemines how often the parent nagios 
> daemon collects the results of all the plugins.  If you have that many 
> plugins at small interval, you could be writing too much for the pipe to 
> handle.  Change the default service_reaper_frequency from 10 to 5 for 
> started.  The daemon will reap the plugins' output more often, which 
> should free up memory.
> 
> -Russell
> 
> Jeremy Hanmer wrote:
> 
> >I'm having  an incredibly hard time tuning nagios to monitor all our our
> >services without using up all of it's 2 gigs of RAM within a couple of
> >hours.
> >
> >There are approximately 4000 services being watched with a check
> >interval of between 5 and 15 minutes.  Out of these, about 1200 are
> >being passively submitted.  nagios -s tells me I should be running
> >approximately 86 max concurrent processes.  While the other machine
> >cruises along with 200, this machine ends up running out of memory
> >within 2-3 hours regardless of whether I set the max procs to 100 or 400
> >(anything less, and the latency is horrible).
> >
> >I currently have a dual PIII 800 with 1 gig running netsaint 0.0.6
> >monitoring the exact number of services, but this dual 1ghz machine with
> >twice the RAM can't keep up.  It's using mysql for all of the data.
> >
> >Does anybody have any idea?
> >
> >
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