Orphaned Checks

[Ethan Galstad]

Orphaned checks can come as a result of a number of issues, including 
fork() errors, crashes in child processes, and out of memory/disk space 
issues.

Have you noticed any problem with mem/disk usage when Nagios is running? 
  Are you running with the embedded perl interpreter enabled?

Fulton, David wrote:
> A couple weeks back I sent this message to the list and never received a response (other than the bit about it not having a subject). The problem has persisted despite several efforts to figure out what is going on and I am still at a loss. Does the fact that the box is running FreeBSD have anything to do with it? I am thinking that maybe it does due to threading issues. But I am wondering if I am doing something wrong to cause the problem. If I am do any of the developers have insight to what could be causing this?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 	David Fulton
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Fulton, David
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:13 AM
> To: Nagios Developers List
> Subject: [Nagios-devel] Orphaned Checks
> 
> Sorry about that, I had brought the message over from users and somehow the Subject did not come with it.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Hendrik Bäcker
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:10 AM
> To: Nagios Developers List
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] FW: (no subject)
> 
> 
> Why didn't you take that chance to give this thread an Subject or on the
> second side why didn't you answer your mail to the list instead of
> forwarding?
> 
> While on threaded reading of this list it would help much.
> 
> Fulton, David schrieb:
>> I have some more information regarding this phenomenon. It seems to
>> happen right after the auto save of retention data.
>>
>>  
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> *From:* nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
>> [mailto:nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] *On Behalf Of
>> *Fulton, David
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 17, 2007 2:58 PM
>> *To:* nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
>> *Subject:* [Nagios-devel] (no subject)
>>
>>  
>>
>> I have upgraded my 3.0b4 to 3.0b5 and the problem with it stopping
>> service checks has gone away. But another problem has cropped up. It
>> seems to run fine all day, but overnight the checkresults directory
>> fills up with files and I get large numbers of orphaned check results
>> messages in the log. Can't seem to find anything in the debug log
>> either. Again, I am at an impasse and would appreciate any ideas.
>>
>>  
>>
>> I have thus far tried changing how I get my data into perfparse and
>> changing my timeperiods so that there are no overlapping times (i.e.
>> from 00:00 - 24:00 to 00:00-23:59) since it always happens overnight and
>> the problem crops up after midnight I have to wait until then to get
>> more data. Other than that I am using FreeBSD 6.2 with the latest
>> plugins (1.4.10), nrpe, nsca and perfparse (the performance data is send
>> to files via a command definition that calls a perl script that writes
>> it to a file. Perparse picks it up via a cron job that runs every 5
>> minutes).
>>
>>  
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David Fulton
>
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Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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Email: nagios at nagios.org
Website: http://www.nagios.org

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