Ping processes piling up?

[Schmitz, Carsten]

Hi,

This is not a core Nagios question but I figure some of you using Nagios might have seen it.

On my "Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)" box, for some weeks now, the pings started by Nagios keep piling up, meaning that I have ping processes running that are several days old. After a while the box gets slow, and I can't sleep coz I keep having those mysterious dreams of process table slot limitations.

Anyone seen this before?

Is my assumption correct that Nagios pings should die on the same day they were started (unless ping started 23:59:59 of course ;)

At the moment all I can do is "killall /bin/ping" every couple of days, whats the expected impact of this on Nagios? (I'd expect that if I kill a ping that Nagios currently "looks at" then the service soft alert gets triggered but since all my services have retry=3 I don't expect any problems - still don't like to put killall into cron, would rather have a clean solution).

Thanks,

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Carsten Schmitz                                    
System Administrator                               
Group Information Management
Aegon N.V.
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