<div>On 4/11/07, Frost, Mark {PBG} <<a href="mailto:mark.frost1@pepsi.com">mark.frost1@pepsi.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello. I'm running Nagios 2.9 with Nagiosgraph 0.8.2. This combination has worked well for us for a while now. My perdata file has grown rather large: $ wc -l perfdata.log 817880 perfdata.log </blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I like keeping the historical data, but I guess that would mean my perdata file would grow infinitely large. I don't see any option in nagios.cfg that controls how much data stays in the perfdata.log file (i.e. a retention interval for data contained therein). Maybe I missed it somewhere. So it's starting to seem like I should trim this file somehow myself, but I'm not sure how to go about that. What's odd is that Nagios did this processing for me fine up until yesterday. I have not added any new hosts since yesterday. I can't imagine that this ran anywhere near 5 seconds prior to yesterday but it still worked. My config file is the same. However, I did upgrade to Nagios 2.9 yesterday.</blockquote><div> I have the same, or similar report. I was (and currently am) running Nagios 2.8, and the services-perf log file is created, added to, and eventually sent to a "process the perf data" (nagiosgraph 0.7 with some local add-ons). Then, I updated nagios to 2.9, and suddenly the perf-log file just got bigger, and bigger, and bigger, and bigger... and no services-performance processing was done, until the available diskspace (20MB all in all - stored on a ramdisk) was full, Nagios 2.9 then kept on running, but didn't have any meaningful informations available through the cgi's... (as the status.dat file is also stored on that ramdisk). Cheers, -- EinarI ps: my current perf settings (both for 2.8, which worked, and for 2.9, which didn't) are: perfdata_timeout=60 process_performance_data=1 host_perfdata_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/status.dir/host_perfdata.log service_perfdata_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/status.dir/service_perfdata.log host_perfdata_file_template=[HOSTPERFDATA]\t$TIMET$\t$HOSTNAME$\t$HOSTEXECUTIONTIME$\t$HOSTOUTPUT$\t$HOSTPERFDATA$ service_perfdata_file_template=$LASTSERVICECHECK$||$HOSTNAME$||$SERVICEDESC$||$SERVICEOUTPUT$||$SERVICEPERFDATA$ host_perfdata_file_mode=a service_perfdata_file_mode=a host_perfdata_file_processing_interval=0 service_perfdata_file_processing_interval=300 service_perfdata_file_processing_command=process-service-perfdata </div></div>