I'll answer that myself – yes that means whatever is there can't process the channel fast enough
So, I'll have to go back to my older parser – which is getting this:
Core was generated by `xymond_mysql --pidfile=/var/log/xymon/xymond_history.pid'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x08049de1 in addnetpeer (peername=0x4f8ca0 "") at xymond_channel.c:140 140 xymond_channel.c: No such file or directory. in xymond_channel.c (gdb) where #0 0x08049de1 in addnetpeer (peername=0x4f8ca0 "") at xymond_channel.c:140 #1 0x00511e9c in ?? () #2 0x004f8ca0 in ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #3 0x08057190 in stackfgets (buffer=0x80497b0, extraincl=0x2 <Address 0x2 out of bounds>) at stackio.c:434 #4 0x080496c1 in _start ()
Which is getting a null timestamp for some items on stachg channel :/
From: <Clark>, Sean Clark <sean.clark at twcable.com<mailto:sean.clark at twcable.com>> Date: Friday, March 15, 2013 11:21 AM To: "xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>" <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>> Subject: [Xymon] Flushing Stale messages?
I have a channel parser than looks at items in the 'stachg' channel
It looks like it's working for me (it parses and does stuff properly)
However – my log is filling up with this:
2013-03-15 11:08:29 Flushed 4 stale messages for 0.0.0.0:0 2013-03-15 11:08:30 Flushed 4 stale messages for 0.0.0.0:0 2013-03-15 11:08:31 Flushed 3 stale messages for 0.0.0.0:0 2013-03-15 11:08:32 Flushed 6 stale messages for 0.0.0.0:0 2013-03-15 11:08:33 Flushed 2 stale messages for 0.0.0.0:0 2013-03-15 11:08:34 Flushed 2 stale messages for 0.0.0.0:0 2013-03-15 11:08:35 Flushed 3 stale messages for 0.0.0.0:0 2013-03-15 11:08:36 Flushed 3 stale messages for 0.0.0.0:0 2013-03-15 11:08:37 Flushed 4 stale messages for 0.0.0.0:0 2013-03-15 11:08:38 Flushed 4 stale messages for 0.0.0.0:0
Is this telling my my parse can not handle the channel in a timely manner, and the message is growing "stale" and I am droping things?
-Sean
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