I just removed the external tests from BBWin and restarted the service. After a day or two i will see if this helps. The config file as it was before i removed the external tests is as follow : (the names of the svsc are not the real names)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <bbwin> <setting name="timer" value="300" /> <setting name="bbdisplay" value="hobbit:1984" /> <setting name="usepager" value="true" /> <setting name="bbpager" value="hobbit:1984" /> <setting name="pagerlevels" value="red purple" /> <load name="cpu" value="cpu.dll" /> <load name="disk" value="disk.dll" /> <load name="externals" value="externals.dll" /> <load name="procs" value="procs.dll" /> <load name="memory" value="memory.dll" /> <load name="msgs" value="msgs.dll" /> <load name="stats" value="stats.dll" /> <load name="svcs" value="svcs.dll" /> <load name="uptime" value="uptime.dll" /> <setting name="loglevel" value="0" /> <setting name="logpath" value="C:\BBWin.log" /> </bbwin> <cpu> <setting name="default" warnlevel="80%" paniclevel="95%" /> </cpu> <disk> <setting name="default" warnlevel="90%" paniclevel="95%" /> </disk> <externals> <setting name="logstimer" value="60" /> <load value="c:\program files\BBWin\ext\external1.exe" timer="300" /> <load value="c:\program files\BBWin\ext\external2.exe" timer="300" /> <load value="c:\program files\BBWin\ext\external3.exe" timer="300" /> <load value="c:\program files\BBWin\ext\external4.exe" timer="300" /> <load value="c:\program files\BBWin\ext\external5.exe" timer="300" /> </externals> <memory> <setting name="physical" warnlevel="95%" paniclevel="98%" /> <setting name="page" warnlevel="80%" paniclevel="90%" /> </memory> <msgs> <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="true" /> <setting name="summary" value="true" /> <match logfile="sys" type="err" alarmcolor="red" /> <match logfile="sys" type="warn" alarmcolor="yellow" /> <match logfile="app" type="err" alarmcolor="red" /> <match logfile="app" type="warn" alarmcolor="yellow" />

<!-- Ignore rules --> </msgs> <procs> </procs> <svcs> <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" /> <setting name="alarmcolor" value="yellow" /> <setting name="autoreset" value="false" /> <setting name="SERVICE1" value="=started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> <setting name="SERVICE2" value="=started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> <setting name="SERVICE3" value="=started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> <setting name="SERVICE4" value="=started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> <setting name="SERVICE5" value="=started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> <setting name="SERVICE6" value="=started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> <setting name="SERVICE7" value="=started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> </svcs> <uptime> <setting name="delay" value="60m" /> <setting name="alarmcolor" value="yellow" /> </uptime> </configuration>

Regards, Ivan

-----Original Message----- From: Etienne Grignon [mailto:etienne.grignon at gmail.com] Sent: vrijdag 25 augustus 2006 17:34 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Memory usage BBWIn 0.8

Hello Ivan,

2006/8/25, Ivan Verbeeck <ivan.verbeeck at vmma.be>:

Hello,

Since the release of BBwin 0.8 i installed it on a couple of our Windows 2003 servers as a replacement for the BB Client. On one of the machines i noticed that the memory usage of the BBWin.exe process keeps growing. After appr. 2 weeks it was over the 60Mb. I restarted the service, but after a few days it's back over the

20Mb.

The client checks a few svcs and runs 5 external tests (compiled perl scripts). Any idea what can cause the problem?

Your mail worry me a little bit ...

Could you check that this server is well installed with BBWin 0.8 ? there were a memory leak on the older BBWin releases but BBWin 0.8 should be ok.

Could you post your BBWin.cfg file and tell me what Windows version are you using ?

Sometimes BBWin may need more memory when a lot of events logs are send to the hobbit server.

On my test servers, I run BBWin with a timer of 5 seconds (so it simulates many weeks of monitoring with a few days) for each agent so I can check if memory is growing. It never goes over 7 Mb.

As Rich said, me be try some times to run without the perl externals even if it should never take memory in the BBWin process itselft.

Regards,

-- Etienne GRIGNON

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