Nagios 2.5 and weird problem
Mark Hennessy
mhennessy at cloud9.net
Thu Nov 30 21:44:50 CET 2006
But how could two Nagios processes start like that?
--
Mark Hennessy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf
> Of Owen Berry
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 3:26 PM
> To: Nagios Users mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 and weird problem
>
> Check the start times of those processes. There should be 1 with the
> time that you originally started Nagios. Any others should be pretty
> close to the current time, which would indicate they're forked
> processes.
>
> If you suspect multiple Nagios's running, I would stop it the usual
> way, wait a bit and make sure everything Nagios related stops, and
> then start again. If you have 2 instances running, you might need to
> some manual process killing before starting up again.
>
> Owen
>
> On 11/30/06, Mark Hennessy <mhennessy at cloud9.net> wrote:
> > Nothing of note appears. :(
> >
> > Is it usually the case that when no checks are running that
> there would be
> > two instances of the Nagios process running?
> >
> > nagios 53577 90.2 0.1 2840 2064 ?? R 12:37PM 146:50.41
> > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> > nagios 76606 0.0 0.1 3100 2360 ?? Ss 9:40AM 0:54.89
> > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> >
> > --
> > Mark Hennessy
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Owen Berry [mailto:owen.berry at gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 3:16 PM
> > > To: Mark Hennessy
> > > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 and weird problem
> > >
> > > And if you check the Nagios log file - anything catch
> your eye? Like
> > > lots of a particualr type of event being processed. Just an idea.
> > >
> > > Owen
> > >
> > > On 11/30/06, Mark Hennessy <mhennessy at cloud9.net> wrote:
> > > > I'm running lots of custom plugins, mostly perl scripts.
> > > >
> > > > ps auxww| grep nagios just shows me two instances of the
> > > nagios executable,
> > > > nrpe, and apache.
> > > >
> > > > This one is the one that's currently eating over 90% of my
> > > clock cycles:
> > > >
> > > > nagios 53577 95.1 0.1 2840 2064 ?? R 12:37PM 107:55.00
> > > > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> > > >
> > > > Thanks again for your kind attention to this matter!
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Mark Hennessy
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Jason.Shein at iovate.com [mailto:Jason.Shein at iovate.com]
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 2:38 PM
> > > > > To: Mark Hennessy; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > > > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 and weird problem
> > > > >
> > > > > Also try the following. It is possible a particular command
> > > > > that you have
> > > > > entered into nagios is hanging. Are you running any
> > > > > non-standard plugins?
> > > > >
> > > > > # ps -aux | grep nagios
> > > > >
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> > > > > "Mark Hennessy" <mhennessy at cloud9.net>
> > > > > Sent by: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > > > 11/30/2006 02:21 PM
> > > > >
> > > > > To
> > > > > <Jason.Shein at iovate.com>, <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> > > > > cc
> > > > >
> > > > > Subject
> > > > > Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 and weird problem
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > OK, I did that, but perhaps I'm missing something.
> > > > >
> > > > > The default fields provided for the output of lsof are:
> > > > > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF
> > > > > NODE
> > > > > NAME
> > > > >
> > > > > When I grep for "local/nagios" to filter out other things
> > > that may be
> > > > > running
> > > > > as the nagios user, I get:
> > > > > nagios 53577 nagios txt VREG 0,83
> > > 376432 5016784
> > > > > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
> > > > > nagios 53577 nagios 4u VREG 0,83
> > > 6 5017162
> > > > > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock
> > > > > nagios 76606 nagios txt VREG 0,83
> > > 376432 5016784
> > > > > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
> > > > > nagios 76606 nagios 4uW VREG 0,83
> > > 6 5017162
> > > > > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock
> > > > > nagios 76606 nagios txt VREG 0,83
> > > 376432 5016784
> > > > > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
> > > > > nagios 76606 nagios 4uW VREG 0,83
> > > 6 5017162
> > > > > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock
> > > > > nagios 76606 nagios txt VREG 0,83
> > > 376432 5016784
> > > > > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
> > > > > nagios 76606 nagios 4uW VREG 0,83
> > > 6 5017162
> > > > > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock
> > > > > nagios 76606 nagios txt VREG 0,83
> > > 376432 5016784
> > > > > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
> > > > > nagios 76606 nagios 4uW VREG 0,83
> > > 6 5017162
> > > > > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock
> > > > > nagios 76606 nagios txt VREG 0,83
> > > 376432 5016784
> > > > > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
> > > > > nagios 76606 nagios 4uW VREG 0,83
> > > 6 5017162
> > > > > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock
> > > > > nagios 76606 nagios txt VREG 0,83
> > > 376432 5016784
> > > > > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
> > > > > nagios 76606 nagios 4uW VREG 0,83
> > > 6 5017162
> > > > > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks again for your kind attention to this matter!
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Mark Hennessy
> > > > >
> > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > > > > [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net]
> On Behalf
> > > > > > Of Jason.Shein at iovate.com
> > > > > > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 1:49 PM
> > > > > > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > > > > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 and weird problem
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Try the following to see what part of the nagios process is
> > > > > > consuming all
> > > > > > of the resources
> > > > > >
> > > > > > #lsof | grep nagios | less
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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> > > > > > Jason Shein
> > > > > > Network Administrator - Linux Systems
> > > > > > Iovate Health Sciences Inc.
> > > > > > 5100 Spectrum Way
> > > > > > Mississauga, ON L4W 5S2
> > > > > > ( 905 ) - 678 - 3119 x 3136
> > > > > > 1 - 888 - 334 - 4448, x 3136 (toll-free)
> > > > > > jason.shein at iovate.com
> > > > > >
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> > > > > > "Mark Hennessy" <mhennessy at cloud9.net>
> > > > > > Sent by: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > > > > 11/30/2006 01:40 PM
> > > > > >
> > > > > > To
> > > > > > <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> > > > > > cc
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Subject
> > > > > > [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 and weird problem
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm using FreeBSD 6.1 and Nagios 2.5
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I've just noticed my Nagios 2.5 installation doing
> > > something weird.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have just under services being monitored by this instance
> > > > > > of Nagios and
> > > > > > I
> > > > > > see this in top:
> > > > > > 53577 nagios 1 119 0 2840K 2064K RUN 0
> > > > > 54:12 87.35%
> > > > > > nagios
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It's been doing that for the past few hours now and the only
> > > > > > thing that
> > > > > > seems
> > > > > > to stop it for a while is to kill all nagios processes and
> > > > > > restart nagios.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What other information would be required to further
> determine
> > > > > > the cause of
> > > > > > Nagios eating up so much CPU?
> > > > > > Any ideas?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Mark Hennessy
> > > > > >
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