From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 5 17:39:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F59116A418 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 17:39:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: from syn.atarininja.org (syn.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 845C913C44B for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 17:39:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: by syn.atarininja.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7668B5C34; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 12:22:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 12:22:09 -0500 From: Wesley Shields To: Mike Tancsa Message-ID: <20080105172209.GG11534@atarininja.org> References: <59DD6CCE263ECD75A7283A7B@ganymede.hub.org> <477A72B8.8010307@protected-networks.net> <477BAD2B.8070603@tomjudge.com> <1DB78354-EBA2-43D0-A2D6-EFDA4950135B@netleader.com.au> <477C1629.1030604@tomjudge.com> <20080103104129.T36551@wallace.netleader.com.au> <738861275EBE2BF6D27F547B@ganymede.hub.org> <2D5923AA-F9C3-490A-8016-F4B3BCCCA4AF@khera.org> <200801031848.m03ImBvZ012746@lava.sentex.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200801031848.m03ImBvZ012746@lava.sentex.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:39:25 -0000 On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:50:15PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 10:55 AM 1/3/2008, Vivek Khera wrote: > As noted in my original report, this isn't a nagios issue per se ... >>> my first >>> experience with this issue was with Azureus/java ... so its a >>> 'threading issue >>> in general' ... >> >> For years now I've been running with libthr as the default threading >> library as set in libmap.conf. The *only* issue I've run into is with >> Java, and that requires libpthread. So my libmap.conf looks like >> this, and everything works really well (including Nagios, mysql, etc.) > > Same here. We were getting quite a few Nagios threads spinning their wheels > (almost 1 per day) with > 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #0: Sun Dec 2 > running Nagios 2.5. Changing to libthr fixed the problem and we have yet > to see a stuck thread since making the change. I'm going to pick up PR 119246 and hopefully get it committed in a few days (pending mentor approval). According to my understanding of this thread this will fix the threading problems people have been discussing here, and will hopefully be picked up in net-mgmt/nagios sooner rather than later. :) -- WXS