> First off I am a linux / CentOS newbies so go easy on me. > Just curious if anyone out there is running Nagios on CentOS 4.5. > I have now installed it on a second server due to issue but the issues > have come back to haunt me. > > The OS is running on an IBM NetVista. Every thing in both installs is > identical as are the problems. > Once I have Nagios up and monitoring every thing hangs. Even a > terminal will hang before it finally just locks up. > The only thing that brings it back is a reboot. Even stopping the > services doesn't work. > Disk space seems fine and even during the hangs there doesn't seems to > be anything taking up a tremendous amount of resources. > After a reboot every thing works fine for several hours. > Any guesses or suggestions? > i have had load issues on nagios boxes that were built with embedded perl i think, it was quite a long time ago and that bug may have been fixed. That made the load on a box continue to rise until nagios was restarted.