Mon Debugging

[Aaron Segura]

I hacked up the standard ping.monitor to send heartbeats to our in-house monitoring front-end upon a successful ping. We started having problems recently with mon not getting the heartbeats out in a timely manner.  I turned on the debug option and started digging through the log.  I noticed that usually, once per second, there's an entry in the log that's just a number, and it increments by one...usually every second...

 

usually.

 

So, on to my question:  Is the counter in the debug log SUPPOSED to count up once per second?  If it doesn't, is that a symptom of too much load on the system? 

 

# tail -f /var/log/mon | egrep 'mon\[[0-9]+\]: [0-9]+ '

Jul 14 12:58:03 ops-inet-mon mon[3430]: 222348
Jul 14 12:58:05 ops-inet-mon mon[3430]: 222349
Jul 14 12:58:06 ops-inet-mon mon[3430]: 222350
Jul 14 12:58:09 ops-inet-mon mon[3430]: 222351
Jul 14 12:58:10 ops-inet-mon mon[3430]: 222352
Jul 14 12:58:13 ops-inet-mon mon[3430]: 222353
Jul 14 12:58:16 ops-inet-mon mon[3430]: 222354
Jul 14 12:58:20 ops-inet-mon mon[3430]: 222355
Jul 14 12:58:24 ops-inet-mon mon[3430]: 222356
Jul 14 12:58:29 ops-inet-mon mon[3430]: 222357
Jul 14 12:58:33 ops-inet-mon mon[3430]: 222358

 

Sorry if this has been covered, but I couldn't find anything in the mailing list or man page...

 

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