We've had the same problems. Earlier when we used active checks from the topnode in our distributed system, we had to restart nagios when the number of nagios processes went too high (or the server would crash). We had a script that restarted nagios whenever the number got too high. Lately we reconfigured our solution to using passive host checks and it solved the problem. Seems the topnode gets too busy with active checks.
A possibility would be to let the leafnodes run the active checks and then send the results to the topnode via nsca by using performance data. morten -----Original Message----- From: James S. White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 7. desember 2005 15:50 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] nagios process count increasing I am running nagios in an distributed environment and when I start nagios on the central server I see an increasing number of nagios processes with the parent process of init. $ ps -ef | grep na[g]ios | awk '{if($3==1){print $0}}' | wc -l 129 $ ps -ef | grep na[g]ios | awk '{if($3==1){print $0}}' | wc -l 141 $ ps -ef | grep na[g]ios | awk '{if($3==1){print $0}}' | wc -l 155 This keeps growing until the server goes down. I just upgraded to 2.0b6 but was seeing this in 2.0b4 as well. The distributed server does not see this. Any ideas? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- James S. White primary/voip: (615) 469-0268 928 Mountain Valley Dr. .O. mobile: (256) 476-2619 Nashville, TN 37209 ..O work: (615) 341-8218 http://www.jameswhite.org OOO work-mobile: (615) 519-5160 [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: (866) 260-5465 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Computers are useless. They only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null