[Xymon] xymon hostdata module going rogue

[John Thurston]

On 6/10/2015 9:01 AM, Scot Kreienkamp wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a xymon server running 4.3.21 that seems to be accumulating
> processes like these:
>
> hobbit   28430  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    12:50   0:00
> [xymond_hostdata] <defunct>
>
> hobbit   28435  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    12:50   0:00
> [xymond_hostdata] <defunct>
>
> hobbit   28440  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    12:50   0:00
> [xymond_hostdata] <defunct>
>
> hobbit   28444  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    12:50   0:00
> [xymond_hostdata] <defunct>
>
> hobbit   28449  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    12:50   0:00
> [xymond_hostdata] <defunct>
>
> hobbit   28452  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    12:50   0:00
> [xymond_hostdata] <defunct>
>
> It seemed related to drop messages . . .

Hey, I think I'm seeing the same thing on Solaris with 4.3.21

I've ended up here after a customer let me know that email alerts were 
not working as expected. After a few hours of digging around, I decided 
that the alert daemon was failing to retrieve hostnames and failing 
miserably.

Have other people seen this behavior?
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