Hello list, I am wondering if anyone has some suggested values for kernel message queue parameters when using the latest NDOUtils 1.5. These are required after the async patch [http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Patches/NDOUtils/ndoutils-2Dasync/details] by andree was added. Within seconds I after the upgrade I was getting a full message queue with many hundred "Error: queue send error" errors.
I tweaked my kernel parameters through trial and error to be (extremely?) large values and am no longer seeing any 'queue send' and 'queue recv' errors. Though I am concerned about consequences with running these large values. Any sane suggestions? Or maybe these parameters are within "sane" limits? I increased my parameters (in /etc/sysctl.conf and applied by `/sbin/sysctl -p`) to allow: kernel.msgmax = 131072000 kernel.msgmnb = 131072000 kernel.msgmni = 65536000 kernel.sem = 5000 4120000 32 20480 This results in a major increase (as viewed from `ipcs -l`): ------ Semaphore Limits -------- max number of arrays = 128 => 20480 max semaphores per array = 250 => 5000 max semaphores system wide = 32000 => 4120000 max ops per semop call = 32 => 32 semaphore max value = 32767 => 32767 ------ Messages: Limits -------- max queues system wide = 1024 => 6553600 max size of message (bytes) = 65536 => 13107200 default max size of queue (bytes) = 65536 => 13107200 My configuration has about 1,500/20,000 Hosts/Services and running about 1,100/6,900/11,300 total checks (every 1/5/15 minutes) through Nagios Core 3.3.1. The machine is a decent quad core, 10gigs RAM, Fedora 11 server with Nagios and related processes set to run mainly from a RAM disk. The current performance is great. Mark Young ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ 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