<div>i met almost the same issue.</div> <div>after tweaking enable_embedded_perl=0, the load average was brought up but latencies became lower. </div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:54 AM, shadih rahman <<a href="mailto:shadhin71@gmail.com">shadhin71@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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. nagios.cfg 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=<a href="mailto:sr2690@columbia.edu" target="_blank">sr2690@columbia.edu</a> 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 my nagiostats output [sr2690>nagiostats Nagios Stats 3.0.6 Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Ethan Galstad (<a href="http://www.nagios.org/" target="_blank">www.nagios.org</a>) 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 -- Cordially, Shadhin Rahman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. 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