[hobbit] Memory usage BBWIn 0.8

[Ivan Verbeeck]

I just removed the external tests from BBWin and restarted the service.
After a day or two i will see if this helps. 
The config file as it was before i removed the external tests is as
follow : (the names of the svsc are not the real names)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<bbwin>
<setting name="timer" value="300" />
<setting name="bbdisplay" value="hobbit:1984" />
<setting name="usepager" value="true" />
<setting name="bbpager" value="hobbit:1984" />
<setting name="pagerlevels" value="red purple" />
<load name="cpu" value="cpu.dll" />
<load name="disk" value="disk.dll" />
<load name="externals" value="externals.dll" />
<load name="procs" value="procs.dll" />
<load name="memory" value="memory.dll" />
<load name="msgs" value="msgs.dll" />
<load name="stats" value="stats.dll" />
<load name="svcs" value="svcs.dll" />
<load name="uptime" value="uptime.dll" />
<setting name="loglevel" value="0" />
<setting name="logpath" value="C:\BBWin.log" />
</bbwin>
<cpu>
<setting name="default" warnlevel="80%" paniclevel="95%" />
</cpu>
<disk>
<setting name="default" warnlevel="90%" paniclevel="95%" />
</disk>
<externals>
<setting name="logstimer" value="60" />
<load value="c:\program files\BBWin\ext\external1.exe" timer="300" />
<load value="c:\program files\BBWin\ext\external2.exe" timer="300" />
<load value="c:\program files\BBWin\ext\external3.exe" timer="300" />
<load value="c:\program files\BBWin\ext\external4.exe" timer="300" />
<load value="c:\program files\BBWin\ext\external5.exe" timer="300" />
</externals>
<memory>
<setting name="physical" warnlevel="95%" paniclevel="98%" />
<setting name="page" warnlevel="80%" paniclevel="90%" />
</memory>
<msgs>
<setting name="alwaysgreen" value="true" />
<setting name="summary" value="true" />
<match logfile="sys" type="err" alarmcolor="red"  />
<match logfile="sys" type="warn" alarmcolor="yellow"  />
<match logfile="app" type="err" alarmcolor="red"  />
<match logfile="app" type="warn" alarmcolor="yellow"  />

<!-- Ignore rules -->
</msgs>
<procs>
</procs>
<svcs>
<setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
<setting name="alarmcolor" value="yellow" />
<setting name="autoreset" value="false" />
<setting name="SERVICE1" value="=started" autoreset="false"
alarmcolor="red" />
<setting name="SERVICE2" value="=started" autoreset="false"
alarmcolor="red" />
<setting name="SERVICE3" value="=started" autoreset="false"
alarmcolor="red" />
<setting name="SERVICE4" value="=started" autoreset="false"
alarmcolor="red" />
<setting name="SERVICE5" value="=started" autoreset="false"
alarmcolor="red" />
<setting name="SERVICE6" value="=started" autoreset="false"
alarmcolor="red" />
<setting name="SERVICE7" value="=started" autoreset="false"
alarmcolor="red" />
</svcs>
<uptime>
<setting name="delay" value="60m" />
<setting name="alarmcolor" value="yellow" />
</uptime>
</configuration> 

Regards,
Ivan

-----Original Message-----
From: Etienne Grignon [mailto:etienne.grignon at gmail.com] 
Sent: vrijdag 25 augustus 2006 17:34
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Memory usage BBWIn 0.8

Hello Ivan,

2006/8/25, Ivan Verbeeck <ivan.verbeeck at vmma.be>:
>
> Hello,
>
> Since the release of BBwin 0.8 i installed it on a couple of our 
> Windows
> 2003 servers as a replacement for the BB Client.
> On one of the machines i noticed that the memory usage of the 
> BBWin.exe process keeps growing. After appr. 2 weeks it was over the 
> 60Mb. I restarted the service, but after a few days it's back over the
20Mb.
> The client checks a few svcs and runs 5 external tests (compiled perl 
> scripts). Any idea what can cause the problem?
>

Your mail worry me a little bit ...

Could you check that this server is well installed with BBWin 0.8 ?
there were a memory leak on the older BBWin releases but BBWin 0.8
should be ok.

Could you post your BBWin.cfg file and tell me what Windows version are
you using ?

Sometimes BBWin may need more memory when a lot of events logs are send
to the hobbit server.

On my test servers, I run BBWin with a timer of 5 seconds (so it
simulates many weeks of monitoring with a few days) for each agent so I
can check if memory is growing. It never goes over 7 Mb.

As Rich said, me be try some times to run without the perl externals
even if it should never take memory in the BBWin process itselft.

Regards,

--
Etienne GRIGNON

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