Nagios 2.5 and weird problem

Owen Berry owen.berry at gmail.com
Thu Nov 30 21:17:17 CET 2006


And if you check the Nagios log file - anything catch your eye? Like
lots of a particualr type of event being processed. Just an idea.

Owen

On 11/30/06, Mark Hennessy <mhennessy at cloud9.net> wrote:
> I'm running lots of custom plugins, mostly perl scripts.
>
> ps auxww| grep nagios just shows me two instances of the nagios executable,
> nrpe, and apache.
>
> This one is the one that's currently eating over 90% of my clock cycles:
>
> nagios  53577 95.1  0.1  2840  2064  ??  R    12:37PM 107:55.00
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
>
> Thanks again for your kind attention to this matter!
>
> --
>  Mark Hennessy
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason.Shein at iovate.com [mailto:Jason.Shein at iovate.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 2:38 PM
> > To: Mark Hennessy; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 and weird problem
> >
> > Also try the following. It is possible a particular command
> > that you have
> > entered into nagios is hanging. Are you running any
> > non-standard plugins?
> >
> > # ps -aux | grep nagios
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________
> > _________________
> >
> > Jason Shein
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> > "Mark Hennessy" <mhennessy at cloud9.net>
> > Sent by: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> > 11/30/2006 02:21 PM
> >
> > To
> > <Jason.Shein at iovate.com>, <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> > cc
> >
> > Subject
> > Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 and weird problem
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > OK, I did that, but perhaps I'm missing something.
> >
> > The default fields provided for the output of lsof are:
> > COMMAND     PID    USER   FD     TYPE       DEVICE   SIZE/OFF
> >     NODE
> > NAME
> >
> > When I grep for "local/nagios" to filter out other things that may be
> > running
> > as the nagios user, I get:
> > nagios    53577  nagios  txt     VREG         0,83     376432  5016784
> > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
> > nagios    53577  nagios    4u    VREG         0,83          6  5017162
> > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock
> > nagios    76606  nagios  txt     VREG         0,83     376432  5016784
> > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
> > nagios    76606  nagios    4uW   VREG         0,83          6  5017162
> > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock
> > nagios    76606  nagios  txt     VREG         0,83     376432  5016784
> > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
> > nagios    76606  nagios    4uW   VREG         0,83          6  5017162
> > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock
> > nagios    76606  nagios  txt     VREG         0,83     376432  5016784
> > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
> > nagios    76606  nagios    4uW   VREG         0,83          6  5017162
> > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock
> > nagios    76606  nagios  txt     VREG         0,83     376432  5016784
> > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
> > nagios    76606  nagios    4uW   VREG         0,83          6  5017162
> > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock
> > nagios    76606  nagios  txt     VREG         0,83     376432  5016784
> > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
> > nagios    76606  nagios    4uW   VREG         0,83          6  5017162
> > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock
> > nagios    76606  nagios  txt     VREG         0,83     376432  5016784
> > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
> > nagios    76606  nagios    4uW   VREG         0,83          6  5017162
> > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock
> >
> > Thanks again for your kind attention to this matter!
> >
> > --
> >  Mark Hennessy
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf
> > > Of Jason.Shein at iovate.com
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 1:49 PM
> > > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 and weird problem
> > >
> > > Try the following to see what part of the nagios process is
> > > consuming all
> > > of the resources
> > >
> > > #lsof | grep nagios | less
> > >
> > > ______________________________________________________________
> > > _________________
> > >
> > > Jason Shein
> > > Network Administrator - Linux Systems
> > > Iovate Health Sciences Inc.
> > > 5100 Spectrum Way
> > > Mississauga, ON L4W 5S2
> > > ( 905 ) - 678 - 3119   x 3136
> > > 1 - 888 - 334 - 4448,    x 3136 (toll-free)
> > > jason.shein at iovate.com
> > >
> > > Customer Service. Collaboration. Innovation. Efficiency.
> > > Iovate's Information Technology Team
> > >
> > > ______________________________________________________________
> > > _________________
> > >
> > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE:
> > > THIS ELECTRONIC MAIL TRANSMISSION IS PRIVILEGED AND
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> > > INTENDED ONLY FOR THE REVIEW OF THE PARTY TO WHOM IT IS ADDRESSED.
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> > > IS DISCLOSED
> > > TO YOU UNDER THE EXPRESS UNDERSTANDING THAT YOU WILL NOT DISCLOSE IT
> > > OR ITS CONTENTS TO ANY THIRD PARTY WITHOUT THE EXPRESS
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> > > OF AN AUTHORIZED OFFICER OF IOVATE HEALTH SCIENCES SERVICES
> > > INC. IF YOU
> > > HAVE
> > > RECEIVED THIS TRANSMISSION IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY RETURN IT
> > > TO THE SENDER.
> > > ______________________________________________________________
> > > _________________
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Mark Hennessy" <mhennessy at cloud9.net>
> > > Sent by: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > 11/30/2006 01:40 PM
> > >
> > > To
> > > <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> > > cc
> > >
> > > Subject
> > > [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 and weird problem
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm using FreeBSD 6.1 and Nagios 2.5
> > >
> > > I've just noticed my Nagios 2.5 installation doing something weird.
> > >
> > > I have just under services being monitored by this instance
> > > of Nagios and
> > > I
> > > see this in top:
> > > 53577 nagios          1 119    0  2840K  2064K RUN    0
> > 54:12 87.35%
> > > nagios
> > >
> > > It's been doing that for the past few hours now and the only
> > > thing that
> > > seems
> > > to stop it for a while is to kill all nagios processes and
> > > restart nagios.
> > >
> > > What other information would be required to further determine
> > > the cause of
> > > Nagios eating up so much CPU?
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > --
> > >  Mark Hennessy
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