Nagios defunct processes

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Frasa [mailto:m.frasa at nl.tiscali.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 10:02 AM
> To: Marc Powell
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios defunct processes
> 
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:41:07 -0600
> "Marc Powell" <marc at ena.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-
> > > bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mark Frasa
> > > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 9:20 AM
> > > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios defunct processes
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > We have nagios running for our network elements.
> > > The amount of elements we are monotoring is 453 and the number of
> > services
> > > is 588
> > >
> > > The problem we are experiencing is that (mostly) after a restart
of
> > nagios
> > > we are getting defunct processes like:
> > >
> > > nagios   14417  2593  0 Jan16 ?        00:00:00 [nagios <defunct>]
> > >
> >
> > Just a semi-educated guess as I haven't seen this before but do you
have
> > a reasonable value set for service_reaper_frequency in nagios.cfg?
> > Mine's set to 2.
> >
> > --
> > Marc
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The value for this setting is:
> 
> service_reaper_frequency=10

And do your defunct processes go away after 10 seconds?

--
Marc 

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