Multiple Nagios processes

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Lonny Selinger wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I was just wondering if anyone has had an issue with (what seems to be) an excessive
> number of nagios processes. I currently am running at around 260 and climbing
> slowly. Eventually it takes the load on the machine quite high. The machine is a
> linux box and currently is running Netsaint in production and Nagios in test (I'm
> working on transitioning Nagios into production right now), and most of the checks
> are done via nrpe so they way I have it set up right now is with both running
> grabbing information from the same nrpe daemon which is already running on other
> machines.
> 
> I'm not sure if that could be the cause but I do know that Netsaint is currently
> only sitting at 37 processed and doesn't seem to be causing much impact.
> Notifications are dissabled for Nagios right now until I move it into production but
> I wanted to verify this behaviour was normal before finishing the transition.
> 
> Any help/suggestions are apreciated!
> 
> Lonny Selinger LPIC-1
> 

This is not normal behaviour - the number of nagios processes should vary 
over time - but nevere consistently increase.  Expect for the main daemon 
- all other processes should die after timeout.

Try restarting the whole process famliy - and take a look in the docs 
about obssessing and reaping.

-- 
-sg



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