Nagios defunct processes

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mark Frasa
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 9:20 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios defunct processes
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We have nagios running for our network elements.
> The amount of elements we are monotoring is 453 and the number of
services
> is 588
> 
> The problem we are experiencing is that (mostly) after a restart of
nagios
> we are getting defunct processes like:
> 
> nagios   14417  2593  0 Jan16 ?        00:00:00 [nagios <defunct>]
> 

Just a semi-educated guess as I haven't seen this before but do you have
a reasonable value set for service_reaper_frequency in nagios.cfg?
Mine's set to 2.

--
Marc

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