Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:45:57 +0200 From: Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz> To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> Cc: Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, hackers@freebsd.org, Charles Sprickman <spork@fasttrackmonkey.com> Subject: Re: Nagios and threads Message-ID: <1119455157.1401.9.camel@genius1.i.cz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0506211042140.17105-100000@sea.ntplx.net> References: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0506211042140.17105-100000@sea.ntplx.net>
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Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Michal Mertl wrote: > > > Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: > > > Charles Sprickman <spork@fasttrackmonkey.com> writes: > > > > 1. FreeBSD and threads. On FreeBSD there's a native user-level > > > > implementation of threads called 'pthread' and there's also an > > > > optional ports collection 'linuxthreads' that uses kernel hooks. > > > > > > This is only the case for FreeBSD 4. FreeBSD 5 has native threads. > > > > Yes, the description on Nagios page is not precise but unfortunately > > Nagios still has some problems even on 5.4. I wasn't able to find out > > what was wrong and the problem dissappeared when I had to replace the > > computer with single-processor one. The symptoms I observed were that > > every several days one Nagios process was consuming all the CPU doing > > hundreds of thousands of syscalls per second. It got always stuck around > > the time when the the daily cron job run. > > > > I did a ktrace on the stuck process and tried to abort it to have the > > core but I've lost the ktrace output and it never saved the core :-(. > > > > I'll install it on another machine and try to diagnose the problem some > > more. > > You gotta try it on -stable. OK. I installed Nagios on a SMP computer with fresh -stable. I tried to stress the disk but until now Nagios hasn't hung. Michal
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