Nagios Run-Time Errors

[mike neuliep]

Nagios Users List:

I'm running into the two following run time errors:

[1079563103] Warning: The check of service 'PING' on host 'site1396' could
not be performed due to a fork() error.  The check will be rescheduled.

[1079563109] SERVICE ALERT: site1394;PING;UNKNOWN;SOFT;1;Cannot open
pipe: /bin/ ping -n -c 5 10.221.57.1

When these errors occur, they will happen in blocks of twenty or thirty at
a time and the progressively get worse as Nagios runs.  Currently I'm
attempting to monitor about 500 sites and 600 services.  The OS is the
latest Debian Stable running on a Compaq DL380 dual p2.8 with 3gig ram so
I'm 100% there isn't any bottleneck in the hardware.  The OS is not
running out of processes because I can launch new processes when nagios
can't fork.  The problem is present in both nagios 1.1 and nagios 1.2.

There have been a few posts on this subject in the listserv in the past,
however no one ever has had a resolution for it.  Any help would be
greatly appreciated!

	Mike Neuliep

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