Nagios 3.2.0 process dies silently - help!

Marc Powell marc at ena.com
Fri Feb 5 19:49:22 CET 2010


Please always respond on list so that others now, and in the future, can benefit from your experience. More below...

On Feb 5, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Tony Johansson wrote:

> Nothing special with the install, everything in the same machine.
> Ran strace as suggested:
> strace -fFs512 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> 
> [pid 32731] write(3, "[1265393566.503713] [016.2] [pid=32731] Processed service performance data file output: 1265393559||AHS||C: Drive Space||c:\\ - total: 15.86 Gb - used: 7.60 Gb (48%) - free 8.26 Gb (52%)||c:\\ Used Space=7.60Gb;14.27;15.54;0.00;15.86\n", 232) = 232
> [pid 32731] _llseek(3, 0, [657557], SEEK_CUR) = 0
> [pid 32731] write(6, "1265393559||AHS||C: Drive Space||c:\\ - total: 15.86 Gb - used: 7.60 Gb (48%) - free 8.26 Gb (52%)||c:\\ Used Space=7.60Gb;14.27;15.54;0.00;15.86\n", 144) = -1 EFBIG (File too large)
> [pid 32731] --- SIGXFSZ (File size limit exceeded) @ 0 (0) ---
> [pid 32732] +++ killed by SIGXFSZ +++
> 
> "File size limit exceeded" seems to be the cause, ideas to remedy this?

Looks like your performance data file has exceeded the size limit supported by your OS (probably 2GB). You need to remove it or truncate it. Look at the value of service_perfdata_file in nagios.cfg to determine what/were that file is.

--
Marc


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