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As lmiltchev said, I think the solution here is to find out the cause of the high load. What does "top" reveal?

And would you be able to offload some checks to be passive? In larger installs this can have a dramatic effect, especially for things like ESX checks which historically are a drain on resources.

There's no solution or workaround for this?

Finding a way to suppress the "Max concurrent checks" message would do it for us!

Unfortunately, as I already said, there is no way to suppress these messages. You will have to resolve the load issue.

No one can help? No suggestions?

Well, you can certainly increase the number of max connections or whichever setting caused this change, unless I am mistaken it sounds like that only started after the changes. As for stopping the messages about it, I doubt there is a way without disabling logging entirely, as this message should definitely be shown when it does happen. Also please do a:

sreinhardt wrote:Well, you can certainly increase the number of max connections or whichever setting caused this change, unless I am mistaken it sounds like that only started after the changes. As for stopping the messages about it, I doubt there is a way without disabling logging entirely, as this message should definitely be shown when it does happen. Also please do a:

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su - nagios -c "ulimit -a"

core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 62787
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 32768
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority (-r) 0
stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 32768
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited

We've also modified the number of available local ports:

cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
25000 65000

Thanks!

Was the server restarted after altering the limits?

abrist wrote:Was the server restarted after altering the limits?

Yes, we've already restarted the server.

What are the specs on this server? You may need to provision more hardware: