trying to fix problem with excessive latency

Mathieu Gagné mgagne at iweb.com
Wed May 19 03:39:21 CEST 2010


On 2010-05-18 21:29, Corey Hickey wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have inherited maintenance of a medium-sized Nagios installation. We
> currently have 649 hosts and 5415 services. Our setup works nicely, with
> one exception: Nagios falls behind on host/service checks. Our usual
> latency once Nagios has been running for a while is about 190-200
> seconds. Our Nagios host is reasonably powerful and isn't struggling; it
> seems that Nagios itself is limited somehow.

Try disabling "enable_environment_macros". It helped use greatly when we 
disabled this option. Nagios was spending most of its time allocating 
memory for environment variables it never used. (in our case)

Host/Service checks latency dropped from ~20 minutes to 10 seconds I 
would say.

-- 
Mathieu

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