Nagios 3.3.1, event brokers, and debug.

[Sven Nierlein]

On 2/24/12 13:06, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 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.

Thats true, but the Mod-Gearman worker does not share code with Nagios. Anyway, the
hint was quite helpful and i got the worker and the neb module running on Freebsd 8
with Gearman 0.25.
https://github.com/sni/mod_gearman

Thanks for reporting this issue and thanks Andreas for your help :-)

Bye,
  Sven

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