Nagios Support Forum

Thanks - patches were applied. I fixed a few extra errors that
valgrind produced last night.


On 29 Nov 2004 at 22:22, Matthew Kent wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 15:34, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > Matthew Kent wrote:
> > > Forwarding this on in case anyone else has seen this behaviour and
> > > has some suggestions. I'll give it a run through valgrind and see
> > > if I can spot anything this evening.
> > >
> >
> > Thanks, Matt.
> >
> > A small update;
> >
> > After having run the daemon about 10 hours at a test system, memory
> > consumption has escalated from roughly 1MB to around 24MB. Not very
> > nice figures. It seems that sending a HUP makes memory consumption
> > make a small jump (usually around 20K).
>
> Well I may have trapped the HUP problem after some passes through
> valgrind. Seems reset_variables was getting called twice, right after
> receiving a sighup and immediately after at the start of the main do()
> loop in nagios.c
>
> I've removed the call to it from cleanup() as it's only called when
> erroring out anyway, and resetting the variables at this point is a
> bit of a lost cause
>
> I also fixed a couple other minor items reported by valgrind. Although
> I couldn't figure out this last one
>
> 64 bytes in 8 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 66 of 118
> at 0x1B904EDD: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:131)
> by 0x808F4D4: xodtemplate_add_host_to_hostlist
> (xodtemplate.c:10665) by 0x808F456:
> xodtemplate_add_hostgroup_members_to_hostlist
> (xodtemplate.c:10640)
> by 0x808EF0E: xodtemplate_expand_hostgroups (xodtemplate.c:10434)
>
> Patch against cvs head.
> --
> Matthew Kent
> http://magoazul.com
>



Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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