On 2007.01.19 10:58:25 -0600, Marc Powell wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Frasa > > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 10:21 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios defunct processes > > > > On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:05:51 -0600 > > "Marc Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > [chop] > > > > And do your defunct processes go away after 10 seconds? > > > > > > -- > > > Marc > > > > Hello, > > > > The little ones i pasted go away even faster, but you are orientating > on > > the wrong part of my question :) > > The real problem is that this process: > > > > nagios 14417 2593 0 Jan16 ? 00:00:00 [nagios <defunct>] > > I'm not necessarily on the wrong track but admittedly this is a grey > area for me. Others on the list (Andreas Ericsson for example) have a > better understanding of the internals of this process than I. My > understanding is that nagios forks child/grandchild process for each > service check that it executes and sends results up via IPC pipe. > > [nagios parent] (fork)-> [nagios child] (fork)-> [nagios grandchild] > (fork)-> [plugin] > > A defunct process is one in which the parent has not yet released the > child process. Logically, the nagios grandchild will release the plugin > after it executes and then the child will release the grandchild after > processing its results on up to the top so something would appear to be > preventing that release. > > > The real problem is that this process: > > > > nagios 14417 2593 0 Jan16 ? 00:00:00 [nagios <defunct>] > > > > Will last there until we kill -HUP kill -9 and restart nagios. > > And while this process stays defunct nagios is acting like there are > two > > instances running. > > This is a child process of parent 2593. Is 2593 your master nagios > daemon? In the end the grandchild should be owned by init, not nagios. I > am presuming that you've stopped nagios and have verified that you > really don't have multiple master processes running. What OS and nagios > version are you seeing this on? > > -- > Marc
Hello, The versions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 8) Nagios 2.5 Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org) Last Modified: 07-13-2006 Cheers, Mark > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > [email protected] > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
