From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 17 18:16:31 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 966BE1065676 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:16:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linda.messerschmidt@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f226.google.com (mail-ew0-f226.google.com [209.85.219.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C8548FC15 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:16:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy26 with SMTP id 26so1531088ewy.3 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:16:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ke6bhOWtQduceudv9/G9yZ9RiP8+bk4aYyPFHl7Kywg=; b=VdldZbMlh28iut0Yonx4ZkHAERySJfmEPuJnbRSvcbDB2sW4W9NnNoRwle3b3ScOFy vI2BFoVK9f8huw8XRE5y4fe/49Ee408jCGP6FOBxMLtVxITEWD8tA9dUCsOqFOeFblmL pphXSbxRCu9zuKBRdx5qcSi9+T4axtRAT0Byw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=QEdA6jrT6fgf4cqO1fISoLyhNNraoW23LOIWOoLxqG7laJzQBUrY13fy1n1mCBebIh 8BmQnSYwAccoVXiRv2r9g5SwcybKWtEVnzCQ3VtmGmvmgu+I97rD1kfobb7LVxJ0Nza8 Qb+ZS7U+1Wqdf4pGuHwE3CGhZFa93IjoeE1HU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.88.143 with SMTP id a15mr995825wef.206.1261073790156; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:16:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200912170905.48877.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> References: <237c27100912100909i9c0eb95jd348eb594d86c744@mail.gmail.com> <20091215175320.GR84026@dan.emsphone.com> <237c27100912151324x3003b810v6145e5f5cd163dbf@mail.gmail.com> <200912170905.48877.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:16:29 -0500 Message-ID: <237c27100912171016g18aa5eb7m7a1fddd1b953a7eb@mail.gmail.com> From: Linda Messerschmidt To: Jonathan McKeown Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0: OpenSSL stat()'s NLS 500+ times causing extreme system load X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:16:31 -0000 On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > It can also be enabled separately in nagios's main config file - > child_processes_fork_twice is the option to look for. Actually I had never seen that before. :) I added this setting immediately and it definitely cut the CPU usage down, but the load average went way up. No doubt that's because a lot of processes that don't live long enough for load average accounting for no longer exist. I'm a lot more interested in CPU usage than load average, so it's a big win for me. :) Thanks!