Nagios on Debian and hundreds of processes

[Tom DE BLENDE]

http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=123&expand=false&showdesc=true

daehenoc at optusnet.com.au wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm running both 1.0 release and 1.0b5
> versions of Nagios on Debian. On both
> machines i'm seeing hundreds (200-350+)
> instances of Nagios!
> 
> vickersg at scotty:~$ ps aux | grep nagios | wc
>     306    3680   31524
> 
> This is the line that is repeated most:
> 
> nagios    5639  0.1  0.2  3164 2344 ?
> SN   16:00   0:00 /usr/sbin/nagios
> /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
> 
> Here are (what I think are) relevant
> nagios.cfg settings:
> 
> service_reaper_frequency=10
> (all other settings regarding scheduling
> queue are not set and are presumably default...)
> 
> TIA,
> Greg
> 
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