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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am running Nagios on a P4 1.4 running RedHat 7.3,
and also at another location on a Sun Ultra 10 running Debian
Sparc/Linux.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The versions are 1.0b6 and 1.0b5 respectvely.
The problem I am encountering is that on the RedHat box, when I set
max_concurrent_checks to 0, nagios appears to start forking infinitely (so to
speak), I believe at the same rate that it is receiving passive checks (approx 1
new fork every 1-3 minutes). The only reason I referenced the Sparc
machine is because it does not suffer from this same problem, although it too
accepts passive checks and shares an identical nagios.cfg as well as
identical build options.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I found a simple fix to be to set
max_concurrent_checks to a static number, and the forked processes stay within
this boundary. I am still can't figure out, though, why the forks seem to
run rampant when not restrained. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What might the condition be that prevents the forks
from completing? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Not being much of a c coder, stracing isn't showing
me much I can work with but I'll be happy to attach logs on request. Thanks in
advance.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike Culbertson</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>