[mrtg] Re: hmm... Non active mrtg processes?

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

Jon Viventi wrote:
> 
> Take a look at my top screen sorted by memory usage....
> 
>   1:38pm  up  4:35,  2 users,  load average: 0.84, 1.80, 1.69
> 127 processes: 123 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 62.5% user,  6.7% system,  0.0% nice, 30.7% idle
> Mem:   384408K av,  376776K used,    7632K free,       0K shrd,    9896K
> buff
> Swap:  265032K av,    1172K used,  263860K free                  113580K
> cached
> 
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> 11732 mrtguser   9   0  9276 9276  1344 S     0.0  2.4   0:08 mrtg
> 13392 mrtguser   9   0  9220 9220  1344 S     0.0  2.3   0:08 mrtg

[snip]

> I dont get it. I'm only running 4 mrtg instances at a time, and only one of
> them is taking longer than 5 minutes... I have a ton of lock files.... Why
> arent  the mrtg processes finishing?

A sleeping process may be waiting for something to happen, such
as SNMP returning a value.  If the system says it is sleeping,
this doesn't mean that the program isn't running.  It is just
pausing as there's nothing to do but to wait.

Tons of lock files is quite normal when there are tons of processes.

If (one of) your devices are slow or don't respond at all, it may take
a long time to figure this out.

I don't have a solution for you and cannot help you any further but
perhaps you can restart troubleshooting now.

cheers,
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