central server spawning tons of processes... ?

[Gerald Wichmann]

I have 2 distributed nagios servers sending passive checks to a 3rd central
nagios server. On the central server i'm continuing to see odd problems. One
thing i notice that i find odd and perhaps wrong, is there are a TON of
nagios processes running.

e.g. if i do a "ps -ef | grep nag | wc -l" i see tons of them. Just today
after it's been running for a bit over 24 hours the above command returned
slightly more then 4000. This seems excessive and wrong..

Is nagios supposed to spawn additional processes?

If i do a nagios stop, they all go away. When i first do a "start", it
starts with 1 but within a minute, it'll grow to a few.. then get into the
10's.. and slowly keep growing obviously to a lot. I can clearly see the
nagios process is spawning them. Doesn't matter if i use init.d to
start/stop it or start it manually. It still spawns more.

Is this correct behavior? I downloaded 1.0 and compiled it, but it still
does it. My two distrivuted servers, as far as i can tell, only show 1
process. Each of the 3 nagios servers are at different levels. e.g. the
central is running an up to date RH8, the distributed are running an up to
date RH7.3 and non up to date 7.1.. 

I'd love to know if anyone else has a central server and if they see this?

thanks,
Gerald


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