1000+ processes then Nagios fails

[Christian Vanguers]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 06:32:42PM +1000, Shane_Seidel at gwf.com.au wrote:
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> Hi All,
> 
> We have a dual P3-1200mhz 512M RAM server running Nagios 1.0 monitoring 180
> devices and 800 services.
> 
> I have noticed that the number of nagios processes increase until they reach a
> count of approx 1000 at which time the server complains it is "out of memory"
> and starts shutting down services.
> 
> I found that executing '/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios reload' from cron would "solve"
> the problem. The number of processes would return to approx 60 and then start to
> climb again. I have the cron job execute every 30 mins.

How did you set "inter_check_delay_method" ?
n,d,s or a value ?

Also, check 'service_interleave_factor',
'max_concurrent_checks' and 'use_agressive_host_checking' values in
nagios.cfg file


Hope this helps,

Chris

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