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Steffen Poulsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are experiencing a problem with nagios commands not being processed
> correctly after ~30hours of uptime at our master server. This server
> _only_ receives check results through NSCA, it does no active checking.
>
> The server receives 5276 external commands / 5 mins, according to its
> performance data. And the first 30 hours of uptime, this is what the
> Passive Service Checks stats also reflects.
>
> But at some point the command processing stops, and all the nagios
> server sees, is the external command, there is no log line for the
> passive check being handled.
>
> A few notes on this condition: Using the "top" utility we notice memory
> usage bumps up and down between using practically none and all available
> memory (one cycle every second or so):
>
> 3169 nagios 1 0 0 631M 559M cpu/15 0:06 4.19% nagios
>
> (Normal scenario (the first 30 hours) is nagios using ~25mb of memory):
>
> 4481 nagios 2 0 0 23M 20M cpu/0 1:34 1.60% nagios
>
> When this condition appears, it is not enough to start and stop nagios -
> we have to clean out the checkresults directory also.
>
> It contains files like this:
>
> -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 439458 Oct 13 21:34 cywyyBl
>
> (Some are quite large, up to a mb).
>
> Other side effects of this condition:
>
> * Nagios doesn't notice freshness checks that gets stale (it
> recognizes stale checks after it starts again
> * Nagios doesn't update status.dat (cgis show stale information)
> * As checks are not recognized, no performance data and other check
> releated stuff is processed
>
> This is a Sun T1000 w. Solaris 10, Nagios 3.0b5 compiled with gcc.
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
> Steffen Poulsen
>
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