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It seems you're using a 1 minute polling interval. Have you tried with a 5 minute one ?
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Post by ame »

Hi,

it takes longer until the errors are appearing, but it is the same......

the ghost threads are increasing as well.....

micky:~# ps -ax |grep cacti
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
5397 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/share/cacti/site/script_server.php spine 0
5400 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/share/cacti/site/script_server.php spine 0
7242 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/share/cacti/site/script_server.php spine 0
7245 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/share/cacti/site/script_server.php spine 0
8131 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep cacti

all 1minute graphs aren´t display anything....and all 20 minutes I get
01/24/2008 02:45:00 PM - POLLER: Poller[0] Maximum runtime of 298 seconds exceeded. Exiting.

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Post by ame »

Witness, do you have any idea regarding this problem?

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Post your technical support page. What is your OS and version "uname -a".

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Also, when these threads get stuck, perform a truss on one of them and post the output.

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Post by ame »

micky:~# uname -a
Linux micky 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Mon Dec 24 16:41:07 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Fresh install of debian etch with cacti .87a and fresh compiled spine.

what do you mean with:
"Also, when these threads get stuck, perform a truss on one of them and post the output."
What should i do?

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Do a "man truss" and you will get your instructions.

Thanks,

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Post by ame »

that package doesn´t exist for debian....cannot install "truss"....
I have searched in the package database of debain and found there nothing as well....

I am confused.....
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You can also use strace :

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# strace -p pid
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Post by ame »

that´s the output.....it hangs..after 10 minutes I made ctrl-c


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micky:~# ps -ax |grep cacti
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
8287 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/share/cacti/site/script_server.php spine 0
8292 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/share/cacti/site/script_server.php spine 0
20603 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/sh -c /usr/share/cacti/site/poller.php >/dev/null 2>/var/log/cacti/poller-error.log
20604 ? S 0:01 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/share/cacti/site/poller.php
20841 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep cacti

micky:~# strace -p 8292
Process 8287 attached - interrupt to quit
read(10, <unfinished ...>
Process 8287 detached
micky:~# strace -p 8292
Process 8292 attached - interrupt to quit
read(12, <unfinished ...>
Process 8292 detached
micky:~#

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Post by ame »

Hi,

I have took a look when this happens. Everytime when I get these error messages in the cacti log:

02/20/2008 07:00:26 AM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: A database insert failed! Error:'1062', SQL Fragment:'INSERT INTO poller_output (local_data_id, rrd_name, time, output) VALUES (1581,'hdd_used','2008-02-20 07:00:24','22072528896'),(1581,'hdd_total','2008-02-20 07:00:24','48417910784'),(1582,'hdd_total','2008-02-20 07:00:24','2593718272'),(1582,'hdd_used','2008-02-20 07:00:24','408158208'),(1586,'traffic_in','2008-02-20 07:00:24','1150309732'),(1586,'traffic_out','2008-02-20 07:00:24','516726394')'

then the spine processes are dying and resides as zombies. After some days these zombies has allocated all of the memory of my cacti machine.....

Any ideas?

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Post by ame »

Hi,

I found out what the problem is: when I leave the threads parameter at "1" all is running fine - at the point I increase threads to 2 and more I get massive error messages and many zombie threads.....

Only for your interest if anyone has got the same problems....

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Alex,

Please use the SVN version, and let me know if the problem goes away. There have been a few critical changes.

However, threading issues in spine for Linux have not been seen for quite some time.

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Post by ben_c »

Any update on this guys?

I am getting the same behavior, will run fine for about half an hour then spine will crash out

03/26/2008 04:15:04 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] FATAL: Connection Failed: Too many connections (Spine thread)
03/26/2008 04:15:04 PM - PHPSVR: Poller[0] ERROR: Input Expected, Script Server Terminating
03/26/2008 04:15:04 PM - PHPSVR: Poller[0] ERROR: Input Expected, Script Server Terminating
03/26/2008 04:15:04 PM - PHPSVR: Poller[0] ERROR: Input Expected, Script Server Terminating
03/26/2008 04:15:04 PM - PHPSVR: Poller[0] ERROR: Input Expected, Script Server Terminating
03/26/2008 04:15:04 PM - PHPSVR: Poller[0] ERROR: Input Expected, Script Server Terminating
03/26/2008 04:15:04 PM - PHPSVR: Poller[0] ERROR: Input Expected, Script Server Terminating
03/26/2008 04:15:04 PM - PHPSVR: Poller[0] ERROR: Input Expected, Script Server Terminating
03/26/2008 04:15:04 PM - PHPSVR: Poller[0] ERROR: Input Expected, Script Server Terminating
03/26/2008 04:15:04 PM - PHPSVR: Poller[0] ERROR: Input Expected, Script Server Terminating
03/26/2008 04:15:04 PM - PHPSVR: Poller[0] ERROR: Input Expected, Script Server Terminating
03/26/2008 04:20:00 PM - POLLER: Poller[0] Maximum runtime of 298 seconds exceeded. Exiting.

I tried bumping the mysql max conns up to 1000 but with no change. Spine 0.8.7a currently.

Linux xxx 2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Nov 30 11:57:43 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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03/23/2009 03:51:01 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:51:02 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:51:02 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:51:02 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:51:02 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:51:02 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:51:02 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:51:03 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:51:03 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:51:03 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:51:14 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:12.5990 Method:spine Processes:2 Threads:50 Hosts:134 HostsPerProcess:67 DataSources:1404 RRDsProcessed:626
03/23/2009 03:52:02 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:52:02 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:52:02 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:52:02 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:52:02 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:52:02 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:52:02 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:52:03 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:52:03 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:52:03 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[999] Script Server did not start properly return message was: ''
03/23/2009 03:52:08 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:6.0390 Method:spine Processes:2 Threads:50 Hosts:134 HostsPerProcess:67 DataSources:1411 RRDsProcessed:622

Hostname: smtp - OS: Linux 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.centos.plus/x86_64 - Distro: CentOS 5.2 - CPU: 2 x Intel Xeon (3800.276 MHz) - Processes: 107 - Uptime: 27d 2h 47m - Users: 1 - Load Average: 0.06 - Memory Usage: 1128.98MB/11954.46MB (9.44%) - Disk Usage: 10.81GB/69.65GB (15.52%)

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General Information
Date 	Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:47:05 -0600
Cacti Version 	0.8.7d
Cacti OS 	unix
SNMP Version 	NET-SNMP version: 5.3.1
RRDTool Version 	RRDTool 1.2.x
Hosts 	150
Graphs 	2368
Data Sources 	Script/Command: 133
SNMP: 38
SNMP Query: 2209
Script Query: 2
Script Query - Script Server: 9
Total: 2391
Poller Information
Interval 	60
Type 	spine
Items 	Action[0]: 4612
Action[1]: 130
Action[2]: 12
Total: 4754
Concurrent Processes 	2
Max Threads 	50
PHP Servers 	5
Script Timeout 	45
Max OID 	10
Last Run Statistics 	Time:12.7683 Method:spine Processes:1 Threads:100 Hosts:134 HostsPerProcess:134 DataSources:1404 RRDsProcessed:626
PHP Information
PHP Version 	5.1.6
PHP OS 	Linux
PHP uname 	Linux smtp.tsagconnect.net 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Wed Dec 17 10:49:19 EST 2008 x86_64
PHP SNMP 	Installed
max_execution_time 	60
memory_limit 	128M
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