[hobbit] Hobbid_channel crashing on me

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Tue Aug 28 17:24:13 CEST 2007


On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:08:56AM -0400, Tom Georgoulias wrote:
> Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> 
> >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?

Correct.


Regards,
Henrik




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