[hobbit] Hobbid_channel crashing on me

[Tom Georgoulias]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:

>> The slice I have the data on has a busy% between 16-88% depending on what's
>> going on (so yes, high I/O as well)

> What's changed internally is that updates of the RRD files are now
> cached for up to 30 minutes before being written to disk

> This also means that when you shutdown Hobbit, you'll see that the
> hobbitd_rrd process takes quite a long time to finish - it is busy
> writing all of the cached updates to disk. On my work server, this 
> takes about 5 minutes.

This is probably obvious, but if hobbit crashes or is rudely shutdown, 
we could lose up to 30 mins of data, right?
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Tom Georgoulias
Sr. Systems Engineer
McClatchy Interactive
tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com