Let all the MRTG processes run all night, and the OPSView webserver was
non responsive and there was over 200 MRTG threads running, I had to
killall to get response back. I have since stopped the MRTG cron tasks
from running.

'topher

On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:12 -0700, Christopher Mattogno wrote:
> I am seeing MRTG hogging lots of CPU and I have nothing using MRTG. I
> have seen false positives on hosts/services down and when I look at CPU
> usage it is over 95% and top shows almost all mrtg processes. I have
> disabled the MRTG Performance graphs trying to reduce numbers and
> although I no longer get alerts for false positives, I do see many mrtg
> processes. Is this normal? Is there anything I can do to? The server is
> a Xeon 3.20GHz (dual core), Ubuntu(hardy), 2 GB RAM, 146 hosts, 1111
> services.
> 
> Top looks like this:
>  1004 nagios    20   0 23424  20m 1620 S    7  1.0   2:24.18 mrtg
>  9654 nagios    20   0 23424  20m 1620 R    7  1.0   1:30.43 mrtg
> 22487 nagios    20   0 23292  20m 1620 R    7  1.0   0:18.60 mrtg
> 24308 nagios    20   0 23424  20m 1620 S    7  1.0   3:46.22 mrtg 
>  1002 nagios    20   0 23292  20m 1620 R    7  1.0   2:39.27 mrtg
>  9652 nagios    20   0 23416  20m 1620 R    7  1.0   1:24.95 mrtg
>  9657 nagios    20   0 23424  20m 1620 R    7  1.0   1:24.72 mrtg
> 22482 nagios    20   0 23292  20m 1620 R    7  1.0   0:20.01 mrtg
> 24302 nagios    20   0 23420  20m 1620 S    7  1.0   3:57.35 mrtg
> 24303 nagios    20   0 23416  20m 1620 R    7  1.0   4:02.53 mrtg
>   998 nagios    20   0 23424  20m 1620 R    7  1.0   2:23.54 mrtg
>   999 nagios    20   0 23420  20m 1620 R    7  1.0   2:22.53 mrtg
>  9655 nagios    20   0 23292  20m 1620 R    7  1.0   1:30.38 mrtg
> 22480 nagios    20   0 23424  20m 1620 R    7  1.0   0:18.62 mrtg
> 22486 nagios    20   0 23292  20m 1620 R    7  1.0   0:20.03 mrtg
> 
> Cron: (both every five minutes)
> 
> if [ -d /var/lock/mrtg ]; then if [ -x /usr/bin/mrtg ] &&
> [ -r /etc/mrtg.cfg ]; then env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg.cfg
> >> /var/log/mrtg/mrtg.log 2>&1; fi else mkdir /var/lock/mrtg; fi
> 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/mrtg_genstats.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
> 
> 
> Mrtg Version: 2.14.7-2ubuntu3 
> 
> mrtg.cfg:
> # Global configuration
> WorkDir: /var/www/mrtg
> WriteExpires: Yes
> 
> Title[^]: Traffic Analysis for
> 
> # 128K leased line
> # ----------------
> #Title[leased]: a 128K leased line
> #PageTop[leased]: <H1>Our 128K link to the outside world</H1>
> #Target[leased]: 1:[email protected]
> #MaxBytes[leased]: 16000
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Opsview-users mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://lists.opsview.org/lists/listinfo/opsview-users
_______________________________________________
Opsview-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.opsview.org/lists/listinfo/opsview-users

Reply via email to