[spine 0.8.7h error] number of spine process are increasing.

[sdkang]

My cacti server statistics:
1. OS : RHEL 5.4
2. cacti version: 0.8.7h
3. spine version: 0.8.7h
4. number of hosts(target): 52
5. poller interval: 5min
6. cron interval: 5min

It works ok using cmd.php.
but I changed poller to spine due to polling time issue.
and then I faced some problems as below...

1. number of the spine process is increasing.

[root@monitor log]# ps -ef | grep spine
500 15010 1 0 16:25 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/src/cacti-spine/bin/spine 36 51
500 15496 1 0 16:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/src/cacti-spine/bin/spine 0 32
500 15501 1 0 16:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/src/cacti-spine/bin/spine 34 60
500 15550 15501 0 16:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15554 15501 0 16:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15556 15501 0 16:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15558 15501 0 16:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15560 15501 0 16:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15562 15501 0 16:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15564 15501 0 16:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15566 15501 0 16:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15568 15501 0 16:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15570 15501 0 16:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15808 1 0 16:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/src/cacti-spine/bin/spine 0 32
500 15813 1 0 16:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/src/cacti-spine/bin/spine 34 60
500 15864 15813 0 16:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15866 15813 0 16:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15868 15813 0 16:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15870 15813 0 16:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15872 15813 0 16:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15874 15813 0 16:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15876 15813 0 16:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15878 15813 0 16:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15880 15813 0 16:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0
500 15884 15813 0 16:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/src/cacti/script_server.php spine 0

2. only the values of 9 hosts(total 52hosts) are gathered by the spine.
I attached a log file(cacti_log.txt)

3. I think that manual execution(./spine --verbosity=5) using the spine seems to work well.
please refer to log file attached(cacti_spine_log.txt)


please let me know how I can fix this problem.

[gandalf]

You may run spine in verbosity 3 mode. It will print per host timings, then. See, whether there is any unresponsive host
R.