Also try the following. It is possible a particular command that you have entered into nagios is hanging. Are you running any non-standard plugins?
# ps -aux | grep nagios _______________________________________________________________________________ Jason Shein Network Administrator – Linux Systems Iovate Health Sciences Inc. 5100 Spectrum Way Mississauga, ON L4W 5S2 ( 905 ) - 678 - 3119 x 3136 1 - 888 - 334 - 4448, x 3136 (toll-free) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Customer Service. Collaboration. Innovation. Efficiency. Iovate's Information Technology Team _______________________________________________________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: THIS ELECTRONIC MAIL TRANSMISSION IS PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL AND IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE REVIEW OF THE PARTY TO WHOM IT IS ADDRESSED. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS E-MAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL AND IS DISCLOSED TO YOU UNDER THE EXPRESS UNDERSTANDING THAT YOU WILL NOT DISCLOSE IT OR ITS CONTENTS TO ANY THIRD PARTY WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT OF AN AUTHORIZED OFFICER OF IOVATE HEALTH SCIENCES SERVICES INC. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS TRANSMISSION IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY RETURN IT TO THE SENDER. _______________________________________________________________________________ "Mark Hennessy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/30/2006 02:21 PM To <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]> cc Subject Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 and weird problem OK, I did that, but perhaps I'm missing something. The default fields provided for the output of lsof are: COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME When I grep for "local/nagios" to filter out other things that may be running as the nagios user, I get: nagios 53577 nagios txt VREG 0,83 376432 5016784 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios nagios 53577 nagios 4u VREG 0,83 6 5017162 /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock nagios 76606 nagios txt VREG 0,83 376432 5016784 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios nagios 76606 nagios 4uW VREG 0,83 6 5017162 /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock nagios 76606 nagios txt VREG 0,83 376432 5016784 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios nagios 76606 nagios 4uW VREG 0,83 6 5017162 /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock nagios 76606 nagios txt VREG 0,83 376432 5016784 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios nagios 76606 nagios 4uW VREG 0,83 6 5017162 /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock nagios 76606 nagios txt VREG 0,83 376432 5016784 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios nagios 76606 nagios 4uW VREG 0,83 6 5017162 /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock nagios 76606 nagios txt VREG 0,83 376432 5016784 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios nagios 76606 nagios 4uW VREG 0,83 6 5017162 /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock nagios 76606 nagios txt VREG 0,83 376432 5016784 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios nagios 76606 nagios 4uW VREG 0,83 6 5017162 /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock Thanks again for your kind attention to this matter! -- Mark Hennessy > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 1:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 and weird problem > > Try the following to see what part of the nagios process is > consuming all > of the resources > > #lsof | grep nagios | less > > ______________________________________________________________ > _________________ > > Jason Shein > Network Administrator - Linux Systems > Iovate Health Sciences Inc. > 5100 Spectrum Way > Mississauga, ON L4W 5S2 > ( 905 ) - 678 - 3119 x 3136 > 1 - 888 - 334 - 4448, x 3136 (toll-free) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Customer Service. Collaboration. Innovation. Efficiency. > Iovate's Information Technology Team > > ______________________________________________________________ > _________________ > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: > THIS ELECTRONIC MAIL TRANSMISSION IS PRIVILEGED AND > CONFIDENTIAL AND IS > INTENDED ONLY FOR THE REVIEW OF THE PARTY TO WHOM IT IS ADDRESSED. > THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS E-MAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL AND > IS DISCLOSED > TO YOU UNDER THE EXPRESS UNDERSTANDING THAT YOU WILL NOT DISCLOSE IT > OR ITS CONTENTS TO ANY THIRD PARTY WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT > OF AN AUTHORIZED OFFICER OF IOVATE HEALTH SCIENCES SERVICES > INC. IF YOU > HAVE > RECEIVED THIS TRANSMISSION IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY RETURN IT > TO THE SENDER. > ______________________________________________________________ > _________________ > > > > "Mark Hennessy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 11/30/2006 01:40 PM > > To > <[email protected]> > cc > > Subject > [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 and weird problem > > > > > > > I'm using FreeBSD 6.1 and Nagios 2.5 > > I've just noticed my Nagios 2.5 installation doing something weird. > > I have just under services being monitored by this instance > of Nagios and > I > see this in top: > 53577 nagios 1 119 0 2840K 2064K RUN 0 54:12 87.35% > nagios > > It's been doing that for the past few hours now and the only > thing that > seems > to stop it for a while is to kill all nagios processes and > restart nagios. > > What other information would be required to further determine > the cause of > Nagios eating up so much CPU? > Any ideas? > > -- > Mark Hennessy > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > Take Surveys. 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