Having issue with process-service-perfdata running too long

[Einar Indridason]

On 4/11/07, Frost, Mark {PBG} <mark.frost1 at pepsi.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello.  I'm running Nagios 2.9 with Nagiosgraph 0.8.2.  This combination
> has worked well for us for a while now.
>
> My perdata file has grown rather large:
>
> $ wc -l perfdata.log
> 817880 perfdata.log
>


> I like keeping the historical data, but I guess that would mean my
> perdata file would grow infinitely large.  I don't see any option in
> nagios.cfg that controls how much data stays in the perfdata.log file
> (i.e. a retention interval for data contained therein).  Maybe I missed
> it somewhere.
>
> So it's starting to seem like I should trim this file somehow myself,
> but I'm not sure how to go about that.
>
> What's odd is that Nagios did this processing for me fine up until
> yesterday.  I have not added any new hosts since yesterday.  I can't
> imagine that this ran anywhere near 5 seconds prior to yesterday but it
> still worked.  My config file is the same.  However, I did upgrade to
> Nagios 2.9 yesterday.



I have the same, or similar report.  I was (and currently am) running Nagios
2.8, and the services-perf log file is created, added to, and eventually
sent to a "process the perf data" (nagiosgraph 0.7 with some local
add-ons).
Then, I updated nagios to 2.9, and suddenly the perf-log file just got
bigger, and bigger, and bigger, and bigger... and no services-performance
processing was done, until the available diskspace (20MB all in all - stored
on a ramdisk) was full, Nagios 2.9 then kept on running, but didn't have any
meaningful informations available through the cgi's... (as the
status.datfile is also stored on that ramdisk).

Cheers,
--
EinarI

ps: my current perf settings (both for 2.8, which worked, and for 2.9, which
didn't) are:

perfdata_timeout=60
process_performance_data=1
host_perfdata_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/status.dir/host_perfdata.log
service_perfdata_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/status.dir/service_perfdata.log
host_perfdata_file_template=[HOSTPERFDATA]\t$TIMET$\t$HOSTNAME$\t$HOSTEXECUTIONTIME$\t$HOSTOUTPUT$\t$HOSTPERFDATA$
service_perfdata_file_template=$LASTSERVICECHECK$||$HOSTNAME$||$SERVICEDESC$||$SERVICEOUTPUT$||$SERVICEPERFDATA$
host_perfdata_file_mode=a
service_perfdata_file_mode=a
host_perfdata_file_processing_interval=0
service_perfdata_file_processing_interval=300
service_perfdata_file_processing_command=process-service-perfdata
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