Nagios on Debian and hundreds of processes

[Tom DE BLENDE]

Hi Greg,

It depends on how many services and hosts you have. If the amount of
processes is not constantly increasing, it is not a problem.

Kind regards,
Tom

daehenoc at optusnet.com.au wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the info Tom. Is it usual to have
> hundreds of Nagios processes?
> 
> I found the FAQ "Nagios is hogging memory or
> causing the server to swap heavily",
> http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=115&expand=false&showdesc=true
> and will reduce my service_reaper_frequency
> and see how that goes.
> 
> Greg
> 
> > Tom DE BLENDE <Tom.DeBlende at dhl.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > daehenoc at optusnet.com.au wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm running both 1.0 release and 1.0b5
> > > versions of Nagios on Debian. On both
> > > machines i'm seeing hundreds (200-350+)
> > > instances of Nagios!
> > >
> > > vickersg at scotty:~$ ps aux | grep nagios | wc
> > >     306    3680   31524
> > >
> > > This is the line that is repeated most:
> > >
> > > nagios    5639  0.1  0.2  3164 2344 ?
> > > SN   16:00   0:00 /usr/sbin/nagios
> > > /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
> > >
> > > Here are (what I think are) relevant
> > > nagios.cfg settings:
> > >
> > > service_reaper_frequency=10
> > > (all other settings regarding scheduling
> > > queue are not set and are presumably
> default...)
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Greg
> > >
> > >
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