Hi Risto, That makes sense as apparently the problem is that a shellcmd is trying to write to the nagios command pipe and is hanging.
Cheers, -Joe On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Risto Vaarandi <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/08/2012 05:54 AM, Joe Prosser wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> I'm seeing a situation where somehow multiple instances of a sec >> process are getting spawned when there should only be one. >> >> The extra copies most of the time disappear, but sometimes they don't >> and there are hundreds of them and they bring the box to its knees. >> >> I think this is load-related. Has anyone else ever seen this? >> >> Cheers, >> -Joe > > Are you invoking external commands from rules with actions like > 'shellcmd' or 'pipe'? If your command lines contain shell > metacharacters, an extra process is started which interprets these > characters (see the following FAQ entry for details: > http://simple-evcorr.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html#22). Also, with actions > that expect input from SEC (like the 'pipe' action), a separate control > process is started which feeds the command with necessary data. > As a result, you could see several SEC processes in the process table. > If you are seeing many such processes, my guess is that the started > commands are running too long for some reason (maybe these commands are > waiting after some system resource). There is no other explanation for > this, since SEC itself never forks another copy of itself, unless an > external command line action is triggered. > hope this helps, > risto > >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Virtualization& Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning >> Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing >> also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. >> http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Simple-evcorr-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/simple-evcorr-users >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > Simple-evcorr-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/simple-evcorr-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Simple-evcorr-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/simple-evcorr-users
