[Nagios-devel] RFC Proof of concenpt patch: Restarting embedded Perl Nagios periodically to halt memory consumption.

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:01:28PM -0500, Ethan Galstad wrote:
> Following up on an old post that needs addressing...
> 
> The info from the Perl docs you provided earlier state that lost 
> memory can only be freed by stopping the process. 

Agreed.

>  Rather than 
> including this functionality in Nagios (which would be a bit kludgy), 
> I would recommend another approach (which is still hackish, but 
> better IMO)...
> 


> Use cron to periodically run a script that calls the check_vsz plugin 
> to determine the memory usage of the Nagios daemon.  If the plugin 
> returns a critical state, restart Nagios using the init script.  
> Simple, but effective.
> 
>

Yes, this is a much better way (even periodic restarts from cron without 
checking mem use would be sufficient).

Thank you for your constructive and helpful answer.

Yours sincerely. 

-- 
Stanley Hopcroft

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