1.1b7 log filled up: expression cannot be evaluated

[roger69]

I've been running 1.1b7 for a few weeks now. Over this last weekend, the zabbix_server process died and I could not restart it. This morning while troubleshooting I found that the zabbix_server.log was over 256MB in size!

When I renamed the log, I was able to restart zabbix. Immediately, the log started filling up. Here is the first part of the log:

003969:20060320:102125 Starting zabbix_server. ZABBIX 1.1beta7.
003971:20060320:102125 server #1 started [Alerter]
003972:20060320:102125 server #2 started [Timer]
003974:20060320:102125 server #3 started [ICMP pinger]
003975:20060320:102125 server #4 started [Escalator]
003980:20060320:102125 server #6 started [Trapper]
003981:20060320:102125 server #7 started [Trapper]
003982:20060320:102125 server #8 started [Trapper]
003983:20060320:102125 server #9 started [Trapper]
003984:20060320:102125 server #10 started [Trapper]
003969:20060320:102125 server #0 started [Housekeeper]
003969:20060320:102125 ZABBIX server is up.
003978:20060320:102125 server #5 started [Poller. SNMP:ON]
003978:20060320:102125 Evaluation of expression [{12091}>150000] failed [Unable to get value for functionid [12091]]
003978:20060320:102125 Expression [{12091}>150000] cannot be evaluated [Unable to get value for functionid [12091]]
003978:20060320:102125 Evaluation of expression [{12487}>0] failed [Unable to get value for functionid [12487]]
003978:20060320:102125 Expression [{12487}>0] cannot be evaluated [Unable to get value for functionid [12487]]
003978:20060320:102126 Evaluation of expression [{12291}>100] failed [Unable to get value for functionid [12291]]
003978:20060320:102126 Expression [{12291}>100] cannot be evaluated [Unable to get value for functionid [12291]]

I can't seem to identify what is causing this. I'm not on a 64-bit system, so the patch I've seen elsewhere doesn't help. This is a FC4 system.

Any help?

Roger Weeks

[krusty]

Maybe the zabbix process dies if the log file is bigger than 256 MB???

I have located this issues too. But i don't know why the process dies. I have wrote a bash script that restart the process even he is going down.

[Alexei]

ZABBIX server log more than 256MB?! I do not believe it ZABBIX automatically performs log rotation (1MB by default), so the log file doesn't grow without limit.

[krusty]

Hi Alexei,

i have checked the log files. And you are right, the log file is only 1 MB. Sorry for the mistake.