Hendrik Bäcker wrote:
> Hi List,
>
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>
> since a few days I was testing some performance issues with Nagios 3
> (current CVS Version).
>
> For nicer graphing I've written a small & dirty Perl script to parse
> some relevant data from the nagiostats binary.
>
> Output of the plugin is:
>
> 1. STDOUT: OK - output | perfdata
> 2. (optional) Output + Performancedata printed directly the the external
> command pipe of Nagios.
>
> I am running a relativ huge installation with up to 5 instances (for
> load balancing) on one hardwareserver (yes - that works).
>
> Some Backgrounddata:
>
> Instance 1: 371 / 2156 (Hosts/Services)
> Instance 2: 206 / 1405 (Hosts/Services)
> Instance 3: 381 / 3147 (Hosts/Services)
> Instance 4: 3 / 54 (Hosts/Services)
> Instance 5: 299 / 3233 (Hosts/Services)
>
> I have enabled the "use_large_installation_tweaks" feature for all
> instance and was realy happy to see that I have _no_ latency at all.
>
> But after 7-9 hours running time I see that the host/service check
> throuput went down, the host/servicecheck execution time wents up (x2.5)
> and latency comes up too.
>
Are you using embedded perl? If so, turn that off.
> After the beginnings of the latency the graph seems to see no end. It
> goes up to 700 seconds for my fifth instance, I guess it will increase
> if I hadn't restartet the nagios process.
>
Run it for just one instance. If you're debugging something, it doesn't
make sense to run it on a resource-starved system.
>
> I guess the 'performance trouble' seems to be a 'during runtime'
> problem. So I am looking for some blowing up tasks in the code, my
> actual guess is the update_check_stats() in base/utils.c which es
> executed on every service check und more than one time for every host
> check i think.
>
> My idea is, that after a while the data structure for stats reaches a
> amount that will take too much time for update and therefor the
> execution time increases.
In C, data structures are constant size, so it's a bit unclear what you
mean by this.
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