Sorry for the delay in responding to this:<br><br>There does not appear to be any core file or log messagess that indicated why it crashes,<br><br><br>However, most of the hosts that I am pinging are DHCP and I am seeing a lot of issues where is it unable to resolve hostname.<br>
<br><pre>Statistics:
Hosts total : 2552
Hosts with no tests : 0
Total test count : 2554
Status messages : 2555
Alert status msgs : 0
Transmissions : 28
DNS statistics:
# hostnames resolved : 2553
# succesful : 3902
# failed : 1202
# calls to dnsresolve : 2554
TCP test statistics:
# TCP tests total : 2
# HTTP tests : 1
# Simple TCP tests : 1
# Connection attempts : 2
# bytes written : 128
# bytes read : 320<br><br>......<br><list of hosts.. cannot resolve hostnames><br>WARNING: Runtime 621 longer than time limit (300)
TIME SPENT
Event Start time Duration
xymonnet startup 574671.360650 -
Service definitions loaded 574671.436934 0.076284
Tests loaded, hostname lookups done 575212.690797 541.253862
Test engine setup completed 575212.757481 0.066683
TCP tests completed 575213.058966 0.301485
PING test completed (2552 hosts) 575282.431094 69.372128
PING test results sent 575291.815708 9.384613
Test result collection completed 575291.859808 0.044100
LDAP test engine setup completed 575291.859810 0.000001
LDAP tests executed 575291.859814 0.000003
LDAP tests result collection completed 575291.859816 0.000001
Test results transmitted 575292.261780 0.401964
xymonnet completed 575292.522109 0.260329
TIME TOTAL 621.161459 <br><br><br>I make backups of the hosts.cfg file before adding hosts, so when it crashes, I just restore the last working hosts.cfg file. I am trying to add hosts in smaller<br>
increments to determine just at what point the the program crashes again.<br><br></pre><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Scott J Post Sr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sjpostsr@gmail.com" target="_blank">sjpostsr@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">I am testing Xymon 4.3.7 and I am trying to monitor about 3000 host pcs. If I get over 2000 hosts, then xymonnet continually crashes. OS is Opensuse 12.1.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I am simply trying to monitor the systems for connectivity right now, using fping.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
Is there a limit on the number of hosts that Xymon can monitor?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Are there any other options that I can look at to see what is causing the error?<br>
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