Ping processes piling up?

[Jamie Baddeley]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 12:51 +0100, Schmitz, Carsten wrote:
> 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).

I had a similar problem. I moved to check_icmp. That fixed it. 

http://oss.op5.se/nagios/





-------------------------------------------------------
The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues
Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek.
It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null