RE: [hobbit] Question about using no-cache on rrd for xymon 4.3.0.0.beta-2

["Stewart, Tom L." <Tom.Stewart (at) landsend.com>]

It has been almost a week and no-one has answered my question about
turning off caching in the latest xymon code 

 

I checked the source code and my -no-cache flag seems to be correct, but
the caching is continuing and is causing holes ( no update for a five
minute period) in the rrd files. I also found where -no-cache is set
within do_rrd.c and hobbitd_rrd.c, so I am assuming that there is a bug
here that does not turn off caching using the -no-cache flag. 

 

So for a temporary fix, can I just set:

do_rrd.c:int use_rrd_cache = 1;   /* Use the cache by default */

to

do_rrd.c:int use_rrd_cache = 0;    /* Don't use the cache by default */

 

recompile and move the binary over or would I be wasting my time as the
caching would still continue?

 

Tom

 

 

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From: Stewart, Tom L. [mailto:Tom.Stewart (at) landsend.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 3:19 PM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Question about using no-cache on rrd for xymon
4.3.0.0.beta-2

 

We are having issues with rrd leaving 5-10 minute intervals of no data
for items such as cpu load on various systems. Most of the time it
happens three times in a row like at 2, 3 and 4 pm. I am not finding
anything is the logs on either the client or server. Some googling
indicated that the issue may go away by using the no-cache option for
RRD. I have added it to the hobbitlaunch.cfg as such:

 

hobbitlaunch.cfg:       CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=status
--log=$BBSERVERLOGS/rrd-status.log hobbitd_rrd --no-cache
--extra-tests=cpucisco,ifaload,ifload,vload,wphlstat,wperrors
--extra-script=/home/xymon/server/ext/extra-rrd.pl  --rrddir=$BBVAR/rrd

hobbitlaunch.cfg:       CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=data
--log=$BBSERVERLOGS/rrd-data.log hobbitd_rrd  --no-cache
--extra-tests=mpstat,zonestat
--extra-script=/home/xymon/server/ext/rrd_data.pl --rrddir=$BBVAR/rrd

 

This is on a 32 bit red hat system and when I do a ps -ef | grep rrd I
show the following:

 

xymon     7635  7599  0 14:26 ?        00:00:01 hobbitd_channel
--channel=status --log=/home/xymon/logs/rrd-status.log hobbitd_rrd
--no-cache --extra-tests=cpucisco,ifaload,ifload,vload,wphlstat,wperrors
--extra-script=/home/xymon/server/ext/extra-rrd.pl
--rrddir=/home/xymon/data/rrd

xymon     7636  7599  0 14:26 ?        00:00:00 hobbitd_channel
--channel=data --log=/home/xymon/logs/rrd-data.log hobbitd_rrd
--no-cache --extra-tests=mpstat,zonestat
--extra-script=/home/xymon/server/ext/rrd_data.pl
--rrddir=/home/xymon/data/rrd

xymon     7672  7635  0 14:26 ?        00:00:07 hobbitd_rrd --no-cache
--extra-tests=cpucisco,ifaload,ifload,vload,wphlstat,wperrors
--extra-script=/home/xymon/server/ext/extra-rrd.pl
--rrddir=/home/xymon/data/rrd

xymon     7681  7636  0 14:26 ?        00:00:03 hobbitd_rrd --no-cache
--extra-tests=mpstat,zonestat
--extra-script=/home/xymon/server/ext/rrd_data.pl
--rrddir=/home/xymon/data/rrd

 

So it looks like it is in effect, but looking at the tmp file I still
see the following:

 

srw-rw-rw- 1 xymon xymon        0 Nov 13 14:26 rrdctl.7672

srw-rw-rw- 1 xymon xymon        0 Nov 13 14:26 rrdctl.7681

 

When I stop and restart xymon I still get messages such as:

 

rrd-status.log:2009-11-13 14:26:09 Cache flush completed

rrd-status.log:2009-11-13 14:26:18 Peer not up, flushing message queue

 

So my question is have I placed the -no-cache in the wrong sequence on
the startup command or is that been taken out of beta-2?

 

Thank you,

Tom