Nagios defunct processes

[Mark Frasa]

On 2007.01.19 18:05:49 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 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
> OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
> Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231

Hello,

I have changed the value to 2.
A probably usefull note:

Sometimes when we restart nagios it says: 

Warning - running nagios did not exit in time

The default init script waits 10 seconds, i made it wait 25 but then it still happens sometimes..


Cheers,
Mark.

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