Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Michal Mertl wrote:
> 
> > Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
> > > Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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