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Yes please!

Actually all is well now - the "process-host-perfdata-file-bulk" command had "/bin/mv" in it twice. I must have gotten my cursor in the wrong place when I modified it while creating the ramdisk and doing the mods. [root@lpnagv03 xidpe]# tail -50 /usr/local/nagios/var/perfdata.log...

[root@lpnagv03 nagiosramdisk]# grep perfdata_file_processing_interval /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
service_perfdata_file_processing_interval=15
#host_perfdata_file_processing_interval=15
host_perfdata_file_processing_interval=5

Of course the last thing I check is the "what do the following commands look like in the Core Config Manager". [root@lpnagv03 etc]# cat /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg|grep perfdata_file_processing_command service_perfdata_file_processing_command=process-service-perfdata-file-bulk host_pe...

I have a 750MB ramdisk that keeps filling because host-perfdata never shrinks. It took just short of seven days to fill the ramdisk. What do I have configured wrong that is causing this to keep growing? tmpfs 750M 750M 160K 100% /var/nagiosramdisk # cd /var/nagiosramdisk/ # ls -lt -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagio...

@lmiltchev - no, none were being generated...

since changing the ulimits the system has run flawlessly. I think this can be closed now. Thanks!

Yeah, built server last October and just got time in my sched to migrate. It wasn't the 'day or two' that I estimated, unfortunately, but it is just about done now. Thought you'd want to close outstanding issues

> These are always tricky as the password is reference with a bash variable, so we need to use double quotes - but that will cause the $ to be treated as a special character. Fixed so not a problem now > This has been resolved in newer versions of the scripts - we now use tar/gz. Or gzip :-) > This ...

# ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 62829 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 128 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 4096 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX messa...

migrated to 64 bit VM image with 8GB RAM and a 750MB ramdisk. Load runs pretty much continuously at 10% now. This can be closed.