many nagios processes start and quit

[Tom DE BLENDE]

This behaviour is by design. Nagios forks processes when it launches
service checks. No need to worry. 

Daniel Geske wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I start the nagios process once and it runs fine. When I do a ps, however, I
> see many other process daemonizing, then disappearing soon thereafter.
> The first process I started manually stays.
> What can I do against this sort of behavior? I think removing this problem
> would reduce load on my system.
> Below you will find two ps returns, one that shows all the weird ones that
> disappear, the other one doen right afterwards, being alright - the way it
> should be.
> 
> I'd be happy to hear from you soon.
> 
> Sincerely
> 
> Daniel
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> :/usr/local/nagios/etc # ps waux | grep bin/nagios
> 
> nagios    2645  0.1  1.0  2584 1372 ?        S    15:29   0:00
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> nagios    4917  0.0  1.0  2584 1372 ?        S    15:29   0:00
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> nagios    4945  0.0  1.0  2584 1372 ?        S    15:29   0:00
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> nagios    4949  0.0  1.0  2584 1372 ?        S    15:29   0:00
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> nagios    5005  0.0  1.0  2584 1372 ?        S    15:29   0:00
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> nagios    5049  0.0  1.0  2584 1372 ?        S    15:29   0:00
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> nagios    5078  0.0  1.0  2584 1372 ?        S    15:29   0:00
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> nagios    5115  0.0  1.0  2584 1372 ?        S    15:30   0:00
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> root      5174  0.0  0.4  1600  536 pts/2    R    15:30   0:00 grep
> bin/nagios
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> :/usr/local/nagios/etc # ps waux | grep bin/nagios
> nagios    2645  0.1  1.0  2584 1372 ?        S    15:29   0:00
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> root     14446  0.0  0.4  1600  536 pts/2    R    15:33   0:00 grep
> bin/nagios
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> Comment: PID 2645 was originally started by me and stays in the process
> list. The others come and go...?
> Is this normal behaviour?
> I am running the latest Nagios 1.0b6 on Linux.
> 
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