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Christoph Maser wrote:
> For me this prolem vanished with 3.0.1
>
That's really, really weird. The only change that could possible
have prevented Nagios 3.0.1 from becoming a fork-bomb if nagios-3.0.0
was is this patch. All other changes between those two revisions are
strictly CGI-related.
---% Chris
> Am Sonntag, den 13.04.2008, 22:55 +0200 schrieb Ethan Galstad:
>> Alessandro Ren wrote:
>>> I have a similiar problems with nagios 3 and 3rc3, could not locate
>>> yet why this happens.
>>>
>>> []s.
>>>
>>> Christoph Maser wrote:
>>>> Hi list
>>>>
>>>> we are testing nagios3 and since the release of the final version we
>>>> encountered a massive problem. Once a day nagios stops working
>>>> correctly. Log file ist full of:
>>>>
>>>> -----
>>>> [$timesatmp] Warning: The check of service '$SERVICE' on host '$HOST'
>>>> could not be performed due to a fork() error. The check will be
>>>> rescheduled.
>>>> -----
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> After a restart of nagios everything works fine again. I have checked
>>>> the checkresult-spool-dir and found tons of _old_ files. When the
>>>> problem occurs nagios has open 1024 FHs most of them (> 1000) for
>>>> checkresult files. Of course 1024 is the open files limit for my nagios
>>>> user.
>>>>
>>>> This problem occurs every day and it started exactly with the install of
>>>> 3.0 final. We where running 3.0rc3 before and did not have any problems.
>>>>
>>>> When i look at the process from time to time i do not see a list of FHs
>>>> building up slowly so i assume that there is some "event" which is
>>>> trigging this malfunction.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>> Is anyone else encountering this error? I'm not seeing anything obvious
>> in the diffs that would have caused this problem post 3.0rc3.
>>
>>
>> Ethan Galstad
>> Nagios Developer
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