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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 19:02, Carl Melgaard <</span><a href="mailto:Carl.Melgaard@stab.rm.dk"><span lang="EN-US">Carl.Melgaard@stab.rm.dk</span></a><span lang="EN-US">> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">I noticed these 2 running, and couldnt figure out how both were spawned. Maybe I should
“DISABLED” the client-part in clientlaunch.cfg – I see now that theres actually a xymonclient-part in tasks.cfg… There we have the 2 instances!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">></span>Yes, that'd be it. Disable one of those.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">></span><span lang="EN-US">The clientlaunch.cfg file comments say:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">></span><span lang="EN-US"># Note: On the Xymon *server* itself, this file is normally<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">></span># NOT used. Instead, both the client- and server-tasks<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">></span><span lang="EN-US"># are controlled by the tasks.cfg file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Yup, I disabled it in clientlaunch and it works.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">></span><span lang="EN-US">Your symptoms suggest that you have a client instance "xymonlaunch --config=...client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg" as well as the server instance.
</span>However your "ps -ef|grep xymonlaunch" only shows one. So I'm puzzled how the clientlaunch.cfg file is being processed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">I think it runs from a service, as xymon-client is a seperate package.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">I guess I’ll try that
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:black">J</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> Thanks for pointing me right at the answer! Now I just have to figure out,
why the new server is eating up 10 times more RAM than the old server, with the same amount of hosts monitored.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">></span><span lang="EN-US">I note that you've moved quite a few OS iterations from CentOS 5 to RHEL 7.
</span>The kernel memory management is likely to be a bit different. You might find that the extra RAM usage is simply taken up by kernel buffers and cache, so isn't really "in use" in the traditional sense.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Is there any way to verify that this is indeed the case?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Carl</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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