Re: [Nagios-users] High Latency with service checks

2011-02-16 Thread Assaf Flatto
Yu Watanabe wrote: Hello All. I would like to get an advice with nagios latency issue. In nagios 3.0.6 with RHEL 4, would there be a possibility that service check latency hikes even though the sar or iostat usage is not in relatively high load usage? (I am planning to upgrade to v 3.2.3

Re: [Nagios-users] High Latency with service checks

2011-02-16 Thread Yueh-Hung Liu
another possibility, do you use addon to do task after every checking? for example, update RRD files for performance graphing, sometimes that should increase the checking latency. 2011/2/16 Yu Watanabe yu.watan...@jp.fujitsu.com: Thank you very much for the reply. Assaf Flatto さんは書きました: Yu

Re: [Nagios-users] High Latency with service checks

2011-02-16 Thread Yu Watanabe
Thank you for the reply Yueh. We graph the results but not after every check. I use the performance output to pool it to a file first . Thanks , Yu Yueh-Hung Liu さんは書きました: another possibility, do you use addon to do task after every checking? for example, update RRD files for performance

[Nagios-users] High Latency with service checks

2011-02-15 Thread Yu Watanabe
Hello All. I would like to get an advice with nagios latency issue. In nagios 3.0.6 with RHEL 4, would there be a possibility that service check latency hikes even though the sar or iostat usage is not in relatively high load usage? (I am planning to upgrade to v 3.2.3 soon.) SAR average cpu

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-12 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 12/11/2010 07:14 PM, Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote: -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 5:57 PM To: Frost, Mark {PBC} Cc: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] high latency Any chance that the OP5 site

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-11 Thread Frost, Mark {PBC}
-Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 5:57 PM To: Frost, Mark {PBC} Cc: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] high latency Any chance that the OP5 site will eventually be configured to allow git through

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-07 Thread Frost, Mark {PBC}
-Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 9:44 AM Hmm. So then I'd be so curious why the 2 distservers which are both using oc[sh]p commands the same way have such radically different latencies. Agreed. There must be

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-06 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 12/03/2010 07:59 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: It appears that nagios spawns lots and lots of new procs for all the various tasks it does, check results and such. I was curious, wouldn't a model more like Apache work better? Something like, a queue for work, and have worker processes grab

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-06 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 12/03/2010 08:14 PM, Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote: Can the use of dependencies also be the cause of increased latencies? If they're very deep, it's possible. Otherwise it really shouldn't matter all that much. It will ofcourse add *some* load, but it shouldn't be enough to cause latency. I

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-04 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
, December 03, 2010 7:03 AM To: Andreas Ericsson; Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] high latency Latency increases much more quickly for us without epn as execution times are noticably longer per check. We use rhel 5.x, so the perl is 5.8.8. We have semi dailoy updates to our pollers

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-03 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 12/02/2010 06:42 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: Embeded perl is interesting though, I hadn't tried that, thought it was supposed to help with performance. In theory, it does. It probably does in practice too, but the problems associated with it makes it not worth it. I don't think we have

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-03 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 12/02/2010 08:38 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: Someone else noticed that nagios is generating a ton of minor page faults, and curious if that's normal and if that could be causing some of the latency in the checks? define a ton $ /usr/bin/time php -r 'echo marsipulami\n;' marsipulami

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-03 Thread Max Schubert
I find it interesting that a number of users get performance improvements with embedded perl off - we lose 20-40% polling capacity perl poller with it off. - Max -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-03 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 12/03/2010 12:46 PM, Max Schubert wrote: I find it interesting that a number of users get performance improvements with embedded perl off - we lose 20-40% polling capacity perl poller with it off. How do you mean that you're losing capacity? Does latency start to creep upwards or is load

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-03 Thread Max Schubert
Latency increases much more quickly for us without epn as execution times are noticably longer per check. We use rhel 5.x, so the perl is 5.8.8. We have semi dailoy updates to our pollers and with epn that means cold restarts - memory leaks have not been noticable given that scenrio, but on test

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-03 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 5:39 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] high latency On 12/02/2010 08:38 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: Someone else noticed that nagios is generating a ton of minor page faults, and curious

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-03 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 12/03/2010 04:31 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: Pagefaults - 20-30k. This seems to be the source of most of the cpu system time (understandably), which sits about 40-50%. So if I could reduce the pagefaults I think we could gain quite a bit of performance back. Over what period of time?

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-03 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Sorry for confusion on that..I added 9 checks to *each* host, and there's about 700 hosts. No, it's all the nagios daemon itself (nagios -uxd). It feels like if I add that many more checks that it has a hard time doing the checks and processing the results since if I either move the active

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-03 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
: Re: [Nagios-users] high latency On 12/02/2010 06:42 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: Embeded perl is interesting though, I hadn't tried that, thought it was supposed to help with performance. In theory, it does. It probably does in practice too, but the problems associated with it makes

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-03 Thread Frost, Mark {PBC}
Can the use of dependencies also be the cause of increased latencies? I too struggle with them and I'm running on lightly-loaded physical hardware. We have 2 servers doing the checks sending back to a central server. Both distributed nodes use ocsp/ochp, but they do nothing more than append

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-02 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
From: Assaf Flatto [mailto:nag...@flatto.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 11:26 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] high latency dan there were a couple of discussions on the list that dealt with latency issues . Have you tried looking

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-02 Thread C. Bensend
Yeah, for giggles I went back further through the archives last night and found stuff back to 2.x series, and not much has seemed to help. I killed some of my mis-behaving active checks, and that dropped to about 20 seconds, then went up to about 35-50. So while that's better, I have A LOT

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-02 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 10:46 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] high latency Yeah, for giggles I went back further through the archives last night and found stuff back to 2.x series, and not much has seemed to help. I killed some of my mis-behaving

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-02 Thread Andreas Ericsson
to run this much faster so not sure why it's not. Dan From: Assaf Flatto [mailto:nag...@flatto.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 11:26 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] high latency dan there were a couple of discussions

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-02 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 12/02/2010 06:05 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: Yeah, been running that since day one, since when rollout is done we'll probably have about 18k servers and around 3 million service checks... 170 services per host? Sounds like an awful lot of switches. I'd use some cleverness to grab

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-02 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] high latency On 12/02/2010 06:05 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: Yeah, been running that since day one, since when rollout is done we'll probably have about 18k servers and around 3 million service checks... 170 services per host

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-02 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Ericsson; Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] high latency Not using SNMP for any of the checks, and most are passive checks. For the few active checks we are probably going to be using dnx. Embeded perl is interesting though, I hadn't tried that, thought it was supposed to help

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-01 Thread Assaf Flatto
dan there were a couple of discussions on the list that dealt with latency issues . Have you tried looking at the list archives about the topic ? Assaf On 01/12/10 16:00, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: I've been watching my latency graphs, and showing 2000 seconds for some service and host

Re: [Nagios-users] High latency on small installation

2010-07-21 Thread Marc Powell
On Jul 20, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Assaf Flatto wrote: Hello All I am having a problem with very high latency on my main nagios server (3.2.0 from source on SLES 10.3 x64). I recompiled the core with the embedded perl and that helped for a while to lower the latency but it keeps growing

Re: [Nagios-users] High latency on small installation

2010-07-21 Thread Assaf Flatto
event_broker_options=-1 broker_module=/usr/local/nagios/bin/ndomod-3x.o Is it better if you disable the event broker? If so, search the archives for information about it and database tuning. There has been somewhat recent discussion about higher latency as the database grows in

Re: [Nagios-users] High latency on small installation

2010-07-21 Thread Assaf Flatto
Assaf Flatto wrote: event_broker_options=-1 broker_module=/usr/local/nagios/bin/ndomod-3x.o Is it better if you disable the event broker? If so, search the archives for information about it and database tuning. There has been somewhat recent discussion about higher latency as

Re: [Nagios-users] High latency on small installation

2010-07-21 Thread Assaf Flatto
Could it be that the more service check I move off the main Nagios server an on to the tested hosts to run via NRPE , that the Latency will increase ? Assaf Marc Powell wrote: On Jul 20, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Assaf Flatto wrote: Hello All I am having a problem with very high latency on

[Nagios-users] High latency on small installation

2010-07-20 Thread Assaf Flatto
Hello All I am having a problem with very high latency on my main nagios server (3.2.0 from source on SLES 10.3 x64). I recompiled the core with the embedded perl and that helped for a while to lower the latency but it keeps growing to times that are not reasonable for this size of a nagios

[Nagios-users] High latency when 15% hosts offline

2010-05-06 Thread kristian
Hi I'm running Nagios Core 3.2.1 Currently we have a network switch down, meaning all hosts beneath that switch are unreachable, 42 in number (from a total of 336) . In Nagios I have the switch set up as the parent. The switch I have set to be in scheduled downtime until we get a replacement, to

[Nagios-users] High latency issues on Nagios 3.2.1

2010-04-06 Thread Cary Petterborg
We are currently working towards migrating from Nagios 2.7 to 3.2. We have 37,000+ services and 3,000+ hosts. We have a test environment with an 8 CPU system running Nagios 3.2.1 and we are getting high latency of 330+ seconds. The configuration has the large installation tweaks turned on and