[Orca-dev] Re: New procallator version, support for linux 2.6 kernels

[Alex Kiernan]

On 7/22/05, C. L. Villani <clynne at ofb.net> wrote:
> Alex Kiernan (alex.kiernan at gmail.com):
> > I'm getting a bunch of errors like this logged:
> >
> > orca: warning: cannot put data starting at Tue Jul 19 10:40:00 2005
> > (1121766000) into
> > '/var/opt/orca/rrd/orcallator/procallator_alexk.eng/counter_nfs_s_t_write.rrd':not a simple integer: '0.01'
> >
> > They're all NFS ones:
> ...
> > This is a brand new install (I've never gotten around to playing with
> > procallator before, only orcallator).
> 
> Alex;
> 
> I was getting errors like that (but for TCP rrds, not NFS ones)
> when I used data that had been collected using the older
> version of procallator.  When I moved that data over to an
> archive location, the errors went away.
> 

Nope - this is a brand new install...

The code uses %.3f/%.2f as its formatter (rate, prcnt and rate_prcnt),
so having it appear to several decimal places isn't exactly
surprising, but its clearly not what RRDtool wants for things getting
plotted when they're configured as COUNTERs.

-- 
Alex Kiernan