Nagios Support Forum

After 7 days working I did your commented command: free -m
As you can see I think I´m losing buffers day by day (or is not used).
Thank you.
Helio.-

And this is the snapshot after restart...

When I restart Nagios, memory goes from 164KB free to 262kB free, but at the begining my system had 500KB free. Day by day my memory continues reducing my free memory. I attach two snapshot, one before de restart Nagios, and the other after restart Nagios. It should be the use of mklivestatus... Tha...

This is a screenshot

I have an Ubuntu 10.10, and Nagios 3.5.1, and MKlivestatus. At the beginning my ram memory has nearly 50% free (I have 1GB ram). But, day by day, the memory is been consumed. After 5 days working, my system has only 10% memory free, and swap starts working logically. How Nagios increase the use of r...

Thank you lmiltchev! I will try as soon as possible (now I am waiting for last change I made, where I configured OOM Killer to reboot in an out-of-memory condition). Let me do a question about your suggestion. My Nagios only uses check_ping and check_snmp plugins, both are compiled for Linux machine...

Hello Scott,
The machine has 4GB of RAM. The Nagios Core version is 3.2.3. In nagios.cfg we have enable_embedded_perl=1.
It´s very strange why is running out of memory having 3GB free. Any idea?
Thank you in advanced.
Helio.-

Thank you, we have disabled snmptrad daemon not to attend any trap packect. The server use check_ping and check_snmp to query the machines directly. It happends at any time. But the two times that we know, the server worked 12 and 14 days. Surprisingly the kernel start killing procceses slowly....un...

After 12 or 14 days working ok my nagios server crash. When the server begin not working properly, it show me in /var/log/messages the kernel OOM Killer , killing a lot of proccesses as nagios. The first one who is killed by "out of memory" is nagios, so I suspect nagios has a bug or the b...