Nagios 3.3.1, event brokers, and debug.

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 02/24/2012 11:37 AM, Sven Nierlein wrote:
> On 2/24/12 11:26, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>> On 02/23/2012 07:50 PM, Sven Nierlein wrote:
>>> On 2/23/12 19:33, Mike Lindsey wrote:
>>>> Turns out that's the problem. I've rebuilt from source and it
>>>> loads, now to get our package maintainer to rebuild the package.
>>>> And to figure out why mod_gearman_worker's children keep
>>>> segfaulting.
>>> Seems to be freebsd related. A colleague could reproduce that with
>>> freebsd 8.
>>>
>> Probably caused by fork() in threads. All bsd's are notoriously and
>> retardedly picky about things like that, so programs that work just
>> splendidly on Linux sometimes fail on *BSD.
> 
> Mixing threads and forks is not a good idea on linux too. The NEB module
> part uses threads but no forks. The worker uses only forks but no threads.
> Currently it seems to be a small problem in different behaviour of strdup().
> 

But Nagios uses fork() aplenty after lots of threads have been created. I
know this has been a source of problem many a time before.

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