could not be performed due to a fork() error.
Marc Powell
marc at ena.com
Wed Dec 19 14:44:24 CET 2007
On Dec 19, 2007, at 6:49 AM, Greg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Greg a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have installed and configured Nagios 3.0b7 to active check ~50
>> hosts,
>> ~8 services / host.
>> The usage of "system" CPU is growing to 35% in 12 hours, at 35%
>> Nagios
>> stop checking with this error in the log file :
How frequently are you checking these hosts/services? What type of
plugins are you using to check them?
>> 'SSH' on host 'varan-01' could not be performed due to a fork()
>> error.
>> The check will be rescheduled.
>>
I'd guess your box is running out of RAM/swap.
> Still having the problem. I started nagios this morning at 10:18, 3
> hours later nagios is using 1.6Go RAM !
>
> 15160 nagios 25 0 1702m 1.6g 2224 R 69 21.0 65:45.43 nagios
> 27665 nagios 25 0 1702m 1.6g 508 S 24 20.9 0:00.12 nagios
Taking a stab at it, do you have the embedded perl interpreter
compiled in? There are known memory leak issues with it. Search for
previous posts from Stanley Hopcroft for more information.
> and fork for each check.
This would be normal.
> What's the hell ?
Smells like a memory leak. You shouldn't act too surprised when using
beta, non-production quality software. Problems are to be expected.
--
Marc
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