serious performance issue

fancyrabbit fancyrabbit at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 07:56:26 CEST 2009


i met almost the same issue.
after tweaking enable_embedded_perl=0, the load average was brought up but
latencies became lower.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:54 AM, shadih rahman <shadhin71 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am seeing a ton of orphaned error message for both services and hosts.  I
> am running nagios on a quad core 2.2 GHZ machine running 4 GHZ memory.  I
> will paste my configuration file below.  I have the machine sending ndo to a
> local database sitting on a 170 GB Hard drive.  nagios is obcessing on both
> host and services and sending data to a machine with identical
> configuration.  I am doing failover using NSCA.  Please advise on this.
>
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> nagios.cfg
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> log_file=/var/log/nagios/nagios.log
> cfg_file=/etc/nagios/commands.cfg
> cfg_file=/etc/nagios/contacts.cfg
> cfg_file=/etc/nagios/timeperiods.cfg
> cfg_file=/etc/nagios/templates.cfg
> cfg_dir=/etc/nagios/hosts
> cfg_dir=/etc/nagios/services
> object_cache_file=/var/log/nagios/objects.cache
> precached_object_file=/var/log/nagios/objects.precache
> resource_file=/etc/nagios/resource.cfg
> status_file=/var/log/nagios/status.dat
> status_update_interval=60
> nagios_user=nagios
> nagios_group=nagios
> check_external_commands=1
> command_check_interval=-1
> command_file=/var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
> external_command_buffer_slots=8192
> lock_file=/var/log/nagios/nagios.lock
> temp_file=/var/log/nagios/nagios.tmp
> temp_path=/tmp
> event_broker_options=8
> broker_module=/usr/lib64/nagios/ndomod.o config_file=/etc/nagios/ndomod.cfg
> log_rotation_method=m
> log_archive_path=/var/log/nagios/archives
> use_syslog=1
> log_notifications=1
> log_service_retries=1
> log_host_retries=1
> log_event_handlers=1
> log_initial_states=0
> log_external_commands=1
> log_passive_checks=1
> service_inter_check_delay_method=n
> max_service_check_spread=30
> service_interleave_factor=s
> host_inter_check_delay_method=s
> max_host_check_spread=30
> max_concurrent_checks=0
> check_result_reaper_frequency=2
> max_check_result_reaper_time=10
> check_result_path=/var/log/nagios/spool/checkresults
> max_check_result_file_age=3600
> cached_host_check_horizon=15
> cached_service_check_horizon=15
> enable_predictive_host_dependency_checks=1
> enable_predictive_service_dependency_checks=1
> soft_state_dependencies=1
> auto_reschedule_checks=1
> auto_rescheduling_interval=30
> auto_rescheduling_window=180
> sleep_time=0.25
> service_check_timeout=30
> host_check_timeout=20
>
> event_handler_timeout=30
> notification_timeout=60
> ocsp_timeout=5
> perfdata_timeout=5
> retain_state_information=1
> state_retention_file=var/log/nagios/retention.dat
> retention_update_interval=60
> use_retained_program_state=1
> use_retained_scheduling_info=1
> retained_host_attribute_mask=0
> retained_service_attribute_mask=0
> retained_process_host_attribute_mask=0
> retained_process_service_attribute_mask=0
> retained_contact_host_attribute_mask=0
> retained_contact_service_attribute_mask=0
> interval_length=60
> use_aggressive_host_checking=0
> execute_service_checks=1
> accept_passive_service_checks=1
> execute_host_checks=1
> accept_passive_host_checks=1
> enable_notifications=1
> enable_event_handlers=1
> process_performance_data=0
> obsess_over_services=1
> ocsp_command=send_service_check
> ochp_command=send_host_check
> obsess_over_hosts=1
> translate_passive_host_checks=0
> passive_host_checks_are_soft=0
> check_for_orphaned_services=1
> check_for_orphaned_hosts=1
> check_service_freshness=1
> service_freshness_check_interval=60
> check_host_freshness=0
> host_freshness_check_interval=60
> additional_freshness_latency=15
> enable_flap_detection=1
> low_service_flap_threshold=5.0
> high_service_flap_threshold=20.0
> low_host_flap_threshold=5.0
> high_host_flap_threshold=20.0
> date_format=us
> enable_embedded_perl=1
> use_embedded_perl_implicitly=1
> illegal_object_name_chars=`~!$%^&*|'"<>?,()=
> illegal_macro_output_chars=`~$&|'"<>
> use_regexp_matching=0
> use_true_regexp_matching=0
> admin_email=sr2690 at columbia.edu
> daemon_dumps_core=0
> use_large_installation_tweaks=1
> enable_environment_macros=1
> debug_level=-1debug_verbosity=2
> debug_file=/var/log/nagios/nagios.debug
> max_debug_file_size=1000000
>
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> my nagiostats output
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> [sr2690>nagiostats
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> Nagios Stats 3.0.6
> Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Ethan Galstad (www.nagios.org)
> Last Modified: 12-01-2008
> License: GPL
>
> CURRENT STATUS DATA
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Status File:                            /var/log/nagios/status.dat
> Status File Age:                        0d 0h 0m 19s
> Status File Version:                    3.0.6
>
> Program Running Time:                   0d 2h 5m 28s
> Nagios PID:                             12139
> Used/High/Total Command Buffers:        0 / 0 / 8192
>
> Total Services:                         2783
> Services Checked:                       2783
> Services Scheduled:                     2782
> Services Actively Checked:              2783
> Services Passively Checked:             0
> Total Service State Change:             0.000 / 52.830 / 0.263 %
> Active Service Latency:                 1.304 / 12092.843 / 1469.130 sec
> Active Service Execution Time:          0.011 / 15.103 / 0.468 sec
> Active Service State Change:            0.000 / 52.830 / 0.263 %
> Active Services Last 1/5/15/60 min:     0 / 0 / 0 / 129
> Passive Service Latency:                0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 sec
> Passive Service State Change:           0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 %
> Passive Services Last 1/5/15/60 min:    0 / 0 / 0 / 0
> Services Ok/Warn/Unk/Crit:              2560 / 13 / 186 / 24
> Services Flapping:                      17
> Services In Downtime:                   0
>
> Total Hosts:                            3037
> Hosts Checked:                          3005
> Hosts Scheduled:                        3029
> Hosts Actively Checked:                 3037
> Host Passively Checked:                 0
> Total Host State Change:                0.000 / 53.620 / 0.227 %
> Active Host Latency:                    0.000 / 12080.792 / 3770.409 sec
> Active Host Execution Time:             0.000 / 104.093 / 2.500 sec
> Active Host State Change:               0.000 / 53.620 / 0.227 %
> Active Hosts Last 1/5/15/60 min:        0 / 0 / 0 / 256
> Passive Host Latency:                   0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 sec
> Passive Host State Change:              0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 %
> Passive Hosts Last 1/5/15/60 min:       0 / 0 / 0 / 0
> Hosts Up/Down/Unreach:                  2849 / 188 / 0
> Hosts Flapping:                         10
> Hosts In Downtime:                      0
>
> Active Host Checks Last 1/5/15 min:     0 / 0 / 1
>    Scheduled:                           0 / 0 / 0
>    On-demand:                           0 / 0 / 1
>    Parallel:                            0 / 0 / 0
>    Serial:                              0 / 0 / 0
>    Cached:                              0 / 0 / 1
> Passive Host Checks Last 1/5/15 min:    0 / 0 / 0
> Active Service Checks Last 1/5/15 min:  0 / 0 / 0
>    Scheduled:                           0 / 0 / 0
>    On-demand:                           0 / 0 / 0
>    Cached:                              0 / 0 / 0
> Passive Service Checks Last 1/5/15 min: 0 / 0 / 0
>
> External Commands Last 1/5/15 min:      0 / 0 / 0
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>
> --
> Cordially,
> Shadhin Rahman
>
>
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