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Ok, I'll increase it later today. Here is the requested output:

[root@clesitonag1 ~]# ls /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/perfdata | wc -l
2
[root@clesitonag1 ~]# ls /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/xdipe | wc -l
ls: cannot access /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/xdipe: No such file or directory
0
[root@clesitonag1 ~]# ls /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/checkresults | wc -l
224

It looks like your check results are getting processed properly at that level, let us know if changing the timeout value has the intended effect.

We increased the the timeout to 30 seconds. I'm not seeing timeouts in the logs, but we're still seeing dropouts in the performance graphs.
root@clesitonag1 ~]# tail -f /usr/local/nagios/var/npcd.log
[02-26-2014 13:12:58] NPCD: A thread was started on thread_counter = 0
[02-26-2014 13:12:58] NPCD: DEBUG: load 13.570000/40.000000
[02-26-2014 13:12:58] NPCD: ThreadCounter 1/4 File is 1393438364.perfdata.service
[02-26-2014 13:12:58] NPCD: Regular File: 1393438364.perfdata.service
[02-26-2014 13:12:58] NPCD: A thread was started on thread_counter = 1
[02-26-2014 13:12:58] NPCD: Processing file 1393438364.perfdata.host with ID 140737343776512 - going to exec /usr/local/nagios/libexec/process_perfdata.pl -n -b /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/perfdata//1393438364.perfdata.host
[02-26-2014 13:12:58] NPCD: Have to wait: Filecounter = 2 - thread_counter = 2
[02-26-2014 13:12:58] NPCD: Processing file 1393438364.perfdata.service with ID 140737199068928 - going to exec /usr/local/nagios/libexec/process_perfdata.pl -n -b /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/perfdata//1393438364.perfdata.service
[02-26-2014 13:12:58] NPCD: Processing file '1393438364.perfdata.host'
[02-26-2014 13:12:58] NPCD: Processing file '1393438364.perfdata.service'
[02-26-2014 13:13:00] NPCD: No more files to process... waiting for 10 seconds


tail -f /usr/local/nagios/var/perfdata.log
2014-02-21 13:05:53 [20794] [0] *** TIMEOUT: Please check your npcd.cfg
2014-02-21 13:05:53 [20794] [0] *** TIMEOUT: /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/perfdata//1393005918.perfdata.service-PID-20794 deleted
2014-02-21 13:05:53 [20794] [0] *** Timeout while processing Host: "smnwallpoe18.advanstar.com" Service: "FastEthernet0_4_Bandwidth"
2014-02-21 13:05:53 [20794] [0] *** process_perfdata.pl terminated on signal ALRM
2014-02-22 13:06:01 [34503] [0] *** TIMEOUT: Timeout after 30 secs. ***
2014-02-22 13:06:01 [34503] [0] *** TIMEOUT: Deleting current file to avoid NPCD loops
2014-02-22 13:06:01 [34503] [0] *** TIMEOUT: Please check your npcd.cfg
2014-02-22 13:06:01 [34503] [0] *** TIMEOUT: /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/perfdata//1393092318.perfdata.service-PID-34503 deleted
2014-02-22 13:06:01 [34503] [0] *** Timeout while processing Host: "smnwallpoe20.advanstar.com" Service: "FastEthernet0_14_Bandwidth"
2014-02-22 13:06:01 [34503] [0] *** process_perfdata.pl terminated on signal ALRM

Did you upgrade pnp4nagios by chance? Can you run the following command, and show us the output:

Not sure, but here's the requested output:

[root@clesitonag1 ~]# cat /usr/local/nagios/etc/pnp/pnp4nagios_release
PKG_REL_DATE="05-02-2009"
PKG_VERSION="0.4.14"
PKG_NAME="pnp"

Have you ever attempted to set up a ramdisk or rrdcached?

No.

Let's take a look at the logs again.

Change the log level to "debug" in both, the "/usr/local/nagios/etc/pnp/npcd.cfg" and the "/usr/local/nagios/etc/pnp/process_perfdata.cfg" file, and restart npcd:
Give it some time, then run the following commands, and post the output in code wraps:

Ok, requested logs are attached.

Did you update MRTG? What is the output of the following commands?