Load skyrockets?

[Skeeve Stevens]

I have over 300 services being checked with a ping check... pretty
simple.

But recently this is absolutely killing the machine... with the load of
the server... a PentiumII500 with 400mb ram, is hitting loads of 30-40
for brief periods....

Is there any way to optimise Nagios ping checks to keep the load down a
bit.... the machine pretty much becomes useless for other things when
this load gets soooo high.

...Skeeve


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