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Date:      Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:43:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz>
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:  <Pine.GSO.4.43.0506211042140.17105-100000@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <1119360396.781.17.camel@genius1.i.cz>

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On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Michal Mertl wrote:

> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav 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.

--=20
DE




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