Re: [Nagios-devel] Problem with initial service scheduling (2.0b3)

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Re: [Nagios-devel] Problem with initial service scheduling (2.0b3)

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This one took me a while to get around to fixing, but the bug should
be squashed after today's CVS commit. Thanks!


On 9 Jun 2005 at 14:55, Fran=C3=A7ois Laupretre wrote:

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> Hi all,
> I currently have a configuration with 4800 services : 600 active and
> 4200 passive. And, as the number was growing, I noticed a problem in
> the way nagios scheduled their initial check time : With the 2.0b3
> original code, with max_service_check_spread=3D30, when I look at the
> scheduling queue just after start, I see that the last service checks
> are scheduled to run in 4 hours ! This delay corresponds to :
> max_service_check_spread * (total_services / total_scheduled_services)
> And should be equal to max_service_check_spread. I found the reason in
> event.c/init_timing_loop() and I am including a change which appears
> to correct the problem but, as I am not sure to fully understand the
> 'interleave_block' logic, this change should be taken with care : The
> reason : in the 'schedule service checks' section of
> init_timing_loop(), next check time is incremented for each service,
> and not for each SCHEDULED service. So, in my case it is incremented
> 'total_services' times and the last check time is equal to :
> Current_time + total_services * service_inter_check_delay Where it
> should be : Current_time + total_scheduled_services *
> service_inter_check_delay Which is coherent with the way
> service_inter_check_delay is computed.
>
> My change consists of taking the 'should_be_scheduled' check out of
> the inner loop, and add a line in order to have the code enter the
> inner 'interleave_block' loop only for active checks. This way
> current_interleave_block goes from 0 to total_schedules_services
> instead of going up to total_services. Once again, the patch I am
> submitting seems to correct the problem in MY case. But I don't know
> if it is correct when interleave variables have some different values.
> Regards Fran=E7ois
>



Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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