bizarre Nagios 2.12 memory leak

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 04/15/2010 05:24 PM, Jeremy wrote:
> 
> I know I really should get around to upgrading to Nagios 3.x but no time for
> that yet and it's going to be a pain to upgrade them all at once without
> being blind for a little bit, so pretend Nagios 3.x isn't an option just
> yet.
> 

The truth of the matter though is that noone really cares about fixing a
problem in 2.12 unless it's also a problem in 3.2.1, and especially if
it's a bug as hard to debug as this one. Insofar as I know, configuration
files are compatible between those two revisions, so you could just use
3.2.1 as a drop-in replacement for 2.12.

Some minor things have to be changed in nagios.cfg (and possibly cgi.cfg),
but the bulk of the configuration should be ok the way it is.

Since this is an otherwise intermittent error which may well depend on other
variables (such as pthread library version, glibc library version or any
other system library), it's well nigh impossible to debug without having
you run Nagios through valgrind until it crashes due to lack of memory.

Rest assured that that will keep your Nagios running crippled longer than
an upgrade would

If the problem persists with Nagios 3.2.1, you should look into upgrading
the rest of your system. If that doesn't help either, it's time to report
it as a bug.

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