Hi I’ve upgraded to this version:

./discovery.php -V

Observium 17.5.8580

It seemed to be a great update but then MySQL died and I found this in the logs:

[2017/06/29 15:05:20 +0200] poller-wrapper.py(29309): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: URGENT: poller-wrapper not started because already running 34 processes, load average (5min) 37.17

And it kept increasing upton load over 70 where I killed all python, CROND and for some reason A LOT of ps processes. An example of processes below.

26133 ?        D      0:00 ps -ww -o ppid,uid,args -p 23434

26331 ?        R      0:00 ps -ww -o ppid,uid,args -p 2981

26354 ?        R      0:00 ps -ww -o ppid,uid,args -p 10439

26355 ?        R      0:00 ps -ww -o ppid,uid,args -p 11755

26356 ?        R      0:00 ps -ww -o ppid,uid,args -p 5772

26357 ?        R      0:00 ps -ww -o ppid,uid,args -p 2624

26360 ?        R      0:00 ps -ww -o ppid,uid,args -p 19699

846 purify    20   0  342884  70760   1636 S   1.0  1.9   0:33.02 python                                                                                                                                                   

 4424 purify    20   0  354536  11156   1632 S   1.0  0.3   1:27.40 python                                                                                                                                                   

 4739 purify    20   0  356676  11832   1632 S   1.0  0.3   1:36.27 python                                                                                                                                                  

 9718 purify    20   0  349728  10108   1636 S   1.0  0.3   1:03.00 python                                                                                                                                                  

20551 purify    20   0  361020  12280   1632 S   1.0  0.3   2:01.39 python                                                                                                                                                  

31260 purify    20   0  348144  76392   1636 S   1.0  2.0   0:56.62 python                                                                                                                                                   

  402 purify    20   0  345244  33752   1636 S   0.7  0.9   0:43.67 python                                                                                                                                                   

 1315 purify    20   0  343148  59904   1632 S   0.7  1.6   0:35.71 python                                                                                                                                                   

 3219 purify    20   0  341844  47340   1632 S   0.7  1.3   0:28.92 python                                                                                                                                                   

 3298 purify    20   0  353204  11376   1632 S   0.7  0.3   1:19.76 python                                                                                                                                                 

Anyone know whats going on? I see this when I try to run the debug output

Your PHP version is too old (5.4.16),                   |

| functionality may be broken. Please update your PHP!    |

| Currently recommended version(s): 7.0.x or 5.6.x 

I guess I should upgrade PHP first.

Regards

-John