Today was a good day. I killed a bunch of processes on homer, and removed it from Netsaint. Only a couple more decisions about DNS and it's ceremony at Lake Valentine time. Yes, I was the last one who needed to get stuff off there. I was waiting to push some stuff at another school, but got motivated by some spammer joe-jobbing a mailing list of all things. So now it's done. I hope we get those DNS decisions done soon. I'm getting enough crap bounceback from this thing...
I'm glad the election turned out the way it did. No contesting of popular vote vs electors, enough margin everyone isn't screaming, and conceeding the election rather than being a big baby and whining about it for months. Now I just hope the real election goes as well. Did you vote?.
Backfence is great, his blog is also a lot of fun, as well as his newhouse colums.
http://lileks.com/bleats/index.html
http://www.newhousenews.com/lileks.html
I've been reading the bleat for awhile, too. Often hilarious, occasionally very long, somewhat-coherent rant. I've got the book about the nasty looking food. My mom laughed to the point that it physically hurt. He's got a new one about 70s decor that I fully intend to add to the pile of coffee table reading.
Are you still using Netsaint? Or has that name stuck since they officially changed to Nagios?
I don't really read any news regularly. I just stumbled across that. My news mainly comes from people saying "did you hear about..." and occationally some interesting headline catches my eye on one of the many RSS feeds I have. Sorry if I got your hopes up Dave. With the Netsaint/Nagios thing, we still use Netsaint for our primary system. Network Services has a Nagios box but after loading most of our equipment in it the thing would last a day before going and filling up swap and taking down the box. Some sort of memory leak in there. Then there's the process of migrating all the other checks in there so we can actually start putting servers into it. Then the tuning sensitivity on things so we don't get pages for non-problems. Plus the fact NetSaint basically blows up when more than a couple hundred things go down... Yea, it's more of a haven't had the time thing... :(
Huh - interesting. I've been running Nagios here for 2+ years on an old Debian box (the only one left that hasn't been upgraded to gentoo) and it's rock-solid. Of course I'm only monitoring ~50 hosts and ~200 services, which is (I'm guessing) significantly smaller than yours.
Yea, it started happening after he dropped in around 200 new hosts to check (it worked fine in initial testing). :( We could have fixed it by having a cron job restart Nagios every 24 hours or so, but figured that'd be a hack and we'd probably just have to shorten the time as we added more...
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