FreeBSD thread issues

[Andreas Ericsson]

Christophe Yayon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> I am a freebsd / nagios user too, and i have the same issue since the
> beginning of Nagios 2.0b on FreeBSD 5... I have a simple shell script in
> cron as a workaround, but it's ugly...
> 

The threads implementation on *BSD leaves a lot to be desired, 
unfortunately. This is not a Nagios issue.

> If i can do something to help Nagios community (i am not a good
> developper...) ...
> Is there again the same issue with the 2.0b4 ? i am using the 2.0b3, and
> i have not tested the last beta release ...
> 
> Is there something planned to resolve this problem, Ethan ? Or should i 
> switch to Linux ?
> 

As the problem isn't in Nagios and noone seems to have an authoritative 
answer on what exactly is causing it, I'd say you would be better off 
switching to a GNU/Linux system, with at least Linux 2.4.29 and 
glibc-2.3 (a lot work was put into thread-safeness on glibc-2.3).

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


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