Nagios defunct processes

Andreas Ericsson ae at op5.se
Fri Jan 19 18:05:49 CET 2007


Mark Frasa wrote:
> 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
> 

Lower it to 2, or at least something below 5.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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