fork() error. The check will be rescheduled.

[Carroll, Jim P]

Please follow-up all replies to the nagios-users list.

fork() isn't a bug in Nagios at all.  It's how well (or how poorly)
you've tuned Nagios.  And there's no practical limit to the number
of hosts or services that you define; your system will run out of
steam long before you hit any such limit.

It doens't sound like you've got too many hosts or services defined.
However, it's possible that it's checking too frequently.  Please refer
to the tuning link I provided in my first e-mail.  And make absolutely
certain that when you stop Nagios, that *all* the nagios procs have
exited.

HTH.

jc

-----Original Message-----
From: Eddy [mailto:c.eduardo at estacio.br]
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 4:46 PM
To: Carroll, Jim P
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] fork() error. The check will be rescheduled.


Hello,
Tks for your help! Sorry  my bad english because i'm brazilian man :)

for() error  message is a "bug" for nagios???
have a limit host for check? I have 384 hosts!

I have this
        Checked 409 services.
        Checked 384 hosts.
        Checked 74 host groups.
        Checked 23 contacts.
        Checked 15 contact groups.
        Checked 2 service escalations.
        Checked 2 host group escalations.

1GB Memory , 2 CPU's, 2GB SWAP, I'm using hp-ux (UNIX)

Sem mais,

        Carlos Eduardo Dionizio
     Analista de Suporte - UNIX
    Universidade Estácio de Sá
Diretoria de Tecnologia da Informação




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carroll, Jim P" <jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com>
To: "Eddy" <c.eduardo at estacio.br>; <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 5:24 PM
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] fork() error. The check will be rescheduled.


> Sounds like your Nagios host is running out of resources.
>
> How many hosts/services are you monitoring?  What CPU does your Nagios
> host have?  Memory?  Swap?
>
> You might want to review this page:
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/tuning.html
>
> jc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eddy [mailto:c.eduardo at estacio.br]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 7:54 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] fork() error. The check will be rescheduled.
>
>
> Hello i have this problem in my eventlog
>
> Warning: The check of service 'PING' on host 'smtp' could not be performed
> due to a fork() error. The check will be rescheduled.
> any can help ???
>
>
>
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