Nagios 2.0a1 hogging resources

[Andreas Ericsson]

Tom DE BLENDE (GCC) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I thought I just mention that over the weekend, the Nagios 2.0a1 
> installation I'm running was starting to take up a lot of system resources:
> 
> 13:21:54  up 17 days,  4:15,  1 user,  load average: 2.66, 1.92, 1.89
> 268 processes: 261 sleeping, 7 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
>           total   19.2%    0.0%   20.5%   0.0%     0.0%    1.4%   58.5%
>           cpu00   17.4%    0.0%   23.2%   0.0%     0.0%    1.5%   57.7%
>           cpu01   21.0%    0.0%   17.8%   0.0%     0.1%    1.3%   59.4%
> Mem:  1028544k av,  693836k used,  334708k free,       0k shrd,  213848k 
> buff
>                    339560k actv,   69812k in_d,    9512k in_c
> Swap: 2044072k av,   31252k used, 2012820k free                  156852k 
> cached
> 
>  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
> 12226 nagios    25   0  -12M   0G  -18M R     0.5 1670289.6  94:53   0 
> nagios
> 
> 
> Restarting the process. Solved it for now. Tell me if you want me to do 
> any sort of testing if you think it can be of use for the development of 
> Nag 2.0.
> 

This is the embedded perl thingie at work (it seems perl can't be 
embedded properly without issues like this. Apache and mod_perl has the 
same problem). Re-compile without it and things should work normally 
again (I've been running it for 3 months now, and had no problems what 
so ever).

> Kind regards,
> Tom
> 

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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