Nevermind, figured it out. I just tried recompiling without the --enable-embedded-perl option and that seems to have fixed it. Now the memory usage is staying at just a couple MB.
Not sure why check_snmp was the only check that seemed to aggravate it though. On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 09:21:03AM GMT, Mark Krenz [m...@suso.org] said the following: > > I've run into some kind of memory leak in Nagios. After removing > checks and services to narrow it down, I've determined that its the > check_snmp command that is leaking memory. With 33 hosts and almost > each one having 1 check that uses check_snmp in it, it leaks about 1MB > every couple checks. It only takes a day for it to get to the point > where nagiops is using 200-300MB of RAM. I'd say that's pretty bad. > > Anyways, I've tried recompiling nagios and the nagios plugins and I've > upgraded all the packages on my system to make sure it wasn't something > there and then recompiled again. Any ideas as to what this might be? > > Here are my system specs for the nagios server: > > System type: Xen virtual machine. > Architecture: x86_64 > Physical memory: 512MB > Distribution: CentOS 5.3 > gcc ver: gcc-4.1.2-44.el5 > > Nagios ver: 3.0.6 > Nagios Configure settings: > configure --with-command-group=nagcmd --enable-embedded-perl > > Nagios plugins ver: 1.4.13 > Nagios Plugins Configure settings: > configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios --with-mysql > > > I actually have another machine that I was running Nagios on recently > where I don't have this problem. It has the same setup except its RHEL > 5.2. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. > Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > 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 > -- Mark S. Krenz IT Director Suso Technology Services, Inc. http://suso.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
