Hi David,

Setting the timeout and retries so that it takes 4000 seconds to timeout the snmp walk is probably what causes this.

Tom

On 29/10/2013 12:42, David Peall wrote:
Have i set the timeouts incorrectly because these should have stopped?

date time : Tue Oct 29 13:39:53 SAST 2013

ps awux returns the following:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root     19497  0.0  0.2  23356  2332 ?        S    12:41   0:00 /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t 1000 -r 3 -v2c -c            -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp udp:servername:161 dot1dBasePortIfIndex
root     20410  0.0  0.0   4400   612 ?        S    12:45   0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t '1000' -r '3' -v2c -c 'snmpstring'@1 -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'servername':'161' dot1dBasePortIfIndex 2>/dev/null
root     20411  0.0  0.2  23356  2408 ?        S    12:45   0:00 /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t 1000 -r 3 -v2c -c            -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp udp:servername:161 dot1dBasePortIfIndex
root     24591  0.0  0.0   4400   612 ?        S    12:50   0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t '1000' -r '3' -v2c -c 'snmpstring'@1 -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'servername':'161' dot1dBasePortIfIndex 2>/dev/null
root     24592  0.0  0.2  23356  2408 ?        S    12:50   0:00 /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t 1000 -r 3 -v2c -c            -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp udp:servername:161 dot1dBasePortIfIndex
root     24840  0.0  0.0   4400   616 ?        S    12:51   0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t '1000' -r '3' -v2c -c 'snmpstring'@1 -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'servername':'161' dot1dBasePortIfIndex 2>/dev/null
root     24841  0.0  0.2  23356  2408 ?        S    12:51   0:00 /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t 1000 -r 3 -v2c -c            -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp udp:servername:161 dot1dBasePortIfIndex
root     25873  0.0  0.0   4400   612 ?        S    12:55   0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t '1000' -r '3' -v2c -c 'snmpstring'@1 -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'servername':'161' dot1dBasePortIfIndex 2>/dev/null
root     25876  0.0  0.2  23356  2408 ?        S    12:55   0:00 /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t 1000 -r 3 -v2c -c            -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp udp:servername:161 dot1dBasePortIfIndex
root     26090  0.0  0.0   4400   612 ?        S    12:55   0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t '1000' -r '3' -v2c -c 'snmpstring'@1 -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'servername':'161' dot1dBasePortIfIndex 2>/dev/null

Thanks
—
David Peall


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