BUG: nagios3 not closing filehandles for checkresult spoolfiles

[Alessandro Ren]

    I have a similiar problems with nagios 3 and 3rc3, could not locate 
yet why this happens.

    []s.

Christoph Maser wrote:
> Hi list
>
> we are testing nagios3 and since the release of the final version we
> encountered a massive problem. Once a day nagios stops working
> correctly. Log file ist full of:
>
> -----
> [$timesatmp] Warning: The check of service '$SERVICE' on host '$HOST'
> could not be performed due to a fork() error.  The check will be
> rescheduled.
> -----
>
>
> After a restart of nagios everything works fine again. I have checked
> the checkresult-spool-dir and found tons of _old_ files. When the
> problem occurs nagios has open 1024 FHs most of them (> 1000) for
> checkresult files. Of course 1024 is the open files limit for my nagios
> user.
>
> This problem occurs every day and it started exactly with the install of
> 3.0 final. We where running 3.0rc3 before and did not have any problems.
>
> When i look at the process from time to time i do not see a list of FHs
> building up slowly so i assume that there is some "event" which is
> trigging this malfunction.
>
>
> Chris
>
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