I'm running lots of custom plugins, mostly perl scripts. ps auxww| grep nagios just shows me two instances of the nagios executable, nrpe, and apache.
This one is the one that's currently eating over 90% of my clock cycles: nagios 53577 95.1 0.1 2840 2064 ?? R 12:37PM 107:55.00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg Thanks again for your kind attention to this matter! -- Mark Hennessy > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 2:38 PM > To: Mark Hennessy; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 and weird problem > > Also try the following. It is possible a particular command > that you have > entered into nagios is hanging. Are you running any > non-standard plugins? > > # ps -aux | grep nagios > > ______________________________________________________________ > _________________ > > Jason Shein > Network Administrator - Linux Systems > Iovate Health Sciences Inc. > 5100 Spectrum Way > Mississauga, ON L4W 5S2 > ( 905 ) - 678 - 3119 x 3136 > 1 - 888 - 334 - 4448, x 3136 (toll-free) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Customer Service. Collaboration. Innovation. Efficiency. > Iovate's Information Technology Team > > ______________________________________________________________ > _________________ > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: > THIS ELECTRONIC MAIL TRANSMISSION IS PRIVILEGED AND > CONFIDENTIAL AND IS > INTENDED ONLY FOR THE REVIEW OF THE PARTY TO WHOM IT IS ADDRESSED. > THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS E-MAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL AND > IS DISCLOSED > TO YOU UNDER THE EXPRESS UNDERSTANDING THAT YOU WILL NOT DISCLOSE IT > OR ITS CONTENTS TO ANY THIRD PARTY WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT > OF AN AUTHORIZED OFFICER OF IOVATE HEALTH SCIENCES SERVICES > INC. IF YOU > HAVE > RECEIVED THIS TRANSMISSION IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY RETURN IT > TO THE SENDER. > ______________________________________________________________ > _________________ > > > > "Mark Hennessy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 11/30/2006 02:21 PM > > To > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]> > cc > > Subject > Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 and weird problem > > > > > > > OK, I did that, but perhaps I'm missing something. > > The default fields provided for the output of lsof are: > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF > NODE > NAME > > When I grep for "local/nagios" to filter out other things that may be > running > as the nagios user, I get: > nagios 53577 nagios txt VREG 0,83 376432 5016784 > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios > nagios 53577 nagios 4u VREG 0,83 6 5017162 > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock > nagios 76606 nagios txt VREG 0,83 376432 5016784 > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios > nagios 76606 nagios 4uW VREG 0,83 6 5017162 > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock > nagios 76606 nagios txt VREG 0,83 376432 5016784 > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios > nagios 76606 nagios 4uW VREG 0,83 6 5017162 > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock > nagios 76606 nagios txt VREG 0,83 376432 5016784 > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios > nagios 76606 nagios 4uW VREG 0,83 6 5017162 > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock > nagios 76606 nagios txt VREG 0,83 376432 5016784 > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios > nagios 76606 nagios 4uW VREG 0,83 6 5017162 > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock > nagios 76606 nagios txt VREG 0,83 376432 5016784 > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios > nagios 76606 nagios 4uW VREG 0,83 6 5017162 > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock > nagios 76606 nagios txt VREG 0,83 376432 5016784 > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios > nagios 76606 nagios 4uW VREG 0,83 6 5017162 > /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock > > Thanks again for your kind attention to this matter! > > -- > Mark Hennessy > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 1:49 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 and weird problem > > > > Try the following to see what part of the nagios process is > > consuming all > > of the resources > > > > #lsof | grep nagios | less > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > _________________ > > > > Jason Shein > > Network Administrator - Linux Systems > > Iovate Health Sciences Inc. > > 5100 Spectrum Way > > Mississauga, ON L4W 5S2 > > ( 905 ) - 678 - 3119 x 3136 > > 1 - 888 - 334 - 4448, x 3136 (toll-free) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Customer Service. Collaboration. Innovation. Efficiency. > > Iovate's Information Technology Team > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > _________________ > > > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: > > THIS ELECTRONIC MAIL TRANSMISSION IS PRIVILEGED AND > > CONFIDENTIAL AND IS > > INTENDED ONLY FOR THE REVIEW OF THE PARTY TO WHOM IT IS ADDRESSED. > > THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS E-MAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL AND > > IS DISCLOSED > > TO YOU UNDER THE EXPRESS UNDERSTANDING THAT YOU WILL NOT DISCLOSE IT > > OR ITS CONTENTS TO ANY THIRD PARTY WITHOUT THE EXPRESS > WRITTEN CONSENT > > OF AN AUTHORIZED OFFICER OF IOVATE HEALTH SCIENCES SERVICES > > INC. IF YOU > > HAVE > > RECEIVED THIS TRANSMISSION IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY RETURN IT > > TO THE SENDER. > > ______________________________________________________________ > > _________________ > > > > > > > > "Mark Hennessy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 11/30/2006 01:40 PM > > > > To > > <[email protected]> > > cc > > > > Subject > > [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 and weird problem > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm using FreeBSD 6.1 and Nagios 2.5 > > > > I've just noticed my Nagios 2.5 installation doing something weird. > > > > I have just under services being monitored by this instance > > of Nagios and > > I > > see this in top: > > 53577 nagios 1 119 0 2840K 2064K RUN 0 > 54:12 87.35% > > nagios > > > > It's been doing that for the past few hours now and the only > > thing that > > seems > > to stop it for a while is to kill all nagios processes and > > restart nagios. > > > > What other information would be required to further determine > > the cause of > > Nagios eating up so much CPU? > > Any ideas? > > > > -- > > Mark Hennessy > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------- > > Take Surveys. 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