Help: icmp pinger processes more than 75% busy - zabbix_server.conf doesn`t work

[Maladrill]

Hi,

My server shows Zabbix icmp pinger processes more than 75% busy.
I tried changing zabbix_server.conf (current number of pingers is set to 1000)
but log shows, that only one is running.

 1849:20131109:161446.253 Starting Zabbix Server. Zabbix 2.0.8 (revision 38017).
  1849:20131109:161446.260 ****** Enabled features ******
  1849:20131109:161446.260 SNMP monitoring:           YES
  1849:20131109:161446.260 IPMI monitoring:           YES
  1849:20131109:161446.260 WEB monitoring:            YES
  1849:20131109:161446.260 Jabber notifications:      YES
  1849:20131109:161446.260 Ez Texting notifications:  YES
  1849:20131109:161446.261 ODBC:                      YES
  1849:20131109:161446.261 SSH2 support:              YES
  1849:20131109:161446.261 IPv6 support:              YES
  1849:20131109:161446.261 ******************************
  1851:20131109:161446.506 server #1 started [configuration syncer #1]
  1852:20131109:161446.506 server #2 started [db watchdog #1]
  1861:20131109:161446.508 server #10 started [trapper #2]
  1862:20131109:161446.508 server #11 started [trapper #3]
  1863:20131109:161446.508 server #12 started [trapper #4]
  1865:20131109:161446.508 server #13 started [trapper #5]
[B]  1866:20131109:161446.508 server #14 started [icmp pinger #1]
[/B]  1869:20131109:161446.509 server #15 started [alerter #1]
  1872:20131109:161446.509 server #17 started [timer #1]
  1877:20131109:161446.509 server #20 started [history syncer #1]
  1849:20131109:161446.510 server #0 started [main process]
  1878:20131109:161446.510 server #21 started [history syncer #2]
  1860:20131109:161446.510 server #9 started [trapper #1]
  1879:20131109:161446.510 server #22 started [history syncer #3]
  1880:20131109:161446.510 server #23 started [history syncer #4]
  1870:20131109:161446.510 server #16 started [housekeeper #1]
  1881:20131109:161446.511 server #24 started [escalator #1]
  1874:20131109:161446.511 server #18 started [http poller #1]
  1882:20131109:161446.511 server #25 started [proxy poller #1]
  1884:20131109:161446.511 server #26 started [self-monitoring #1]
  1870:20131109:161446.519 executing housekeeper
  1853:20131109:161447.183 server #3 started [poller #1]
  1859:20131109:161447.186 server #8 started [unreachable poller #1]
  1857:20131109:161447.188 server #6 started [poller #4]
  1855:20131109:161447.186 server #4 started [poller #2]
  1856:20131109:161447.190 server #5 started [poller #3]
  1875:20131109:161447.191 server #19 started [discoverer #1]
  1858:20131109:161447.233 server #7 started [poller #5]

Can anyone help me? How can I make zabbix use the config file when starting?

My config setting:

### Option: StartPingers
#	Number of pre-forked instances of ICMP pingers.
#
# Mandatory: no
# Range: 0-1000
# Default:
# StartPingers=1000

Best regards
Simon

[tchjts1]

My config setting:

### Option: StartPingers
# Number of pre-forked instances of ICMP pingers.
#
# Mandatory: no
# Range: 0-1000
# Default:
# StartPingers=1000

Best regards
Simon

Well, you certainly do not want to have 1000 ICMP pingers running!! But for any parameter to work, you have to remove the # in front of the parameter.

I always leave the default listed as is, so I know what they were to begin with. Make yours look like this, then restart your zabbix server process.

### Option: StartPingers
# Number of pre-forked instances of ICMP pingers.
#
# Mandatory: no
# Range: 0-1000
# Default:
# StartPingers=1
StartPingers=4

[Maladrill]

Thank you!

[kaos]

tchjts1,

Thank you for the suggestion, fixed my server and issue resolved. Set to 400. Is there a reason 1000 pingers is bad? too much load on the server?