[Orca-users] Re: intervals and RRDs

[Blair Zajac]

If you are running a Solaris 2.5.1 host, then this behavior has been
observed.  I would keep the interval at 300 seconds and change the
late interval to interval + 950.

Blair

Duncan Lawie wrote:
> 
> From: Duncan Lawie <duncanl at demon.net>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have orca running for a set of systems.  orcallator is running on each
> 
> system with the default 300 second interval.  However, the data produced
> 
> is only rsynched to the web server every twenty minutes.  To avoid the
> "file not current" message, I have set the interval in orcallator.cfg to
> 
> 1200 i.e. 20 minutes.
> 
> I am now concerned about an earlier message concerning RRD and missing
> data points.
> 
> > You also now have the problem that the RRD file is interpolating
> > your data to 500 second intervals and you're recording every 600
> > seconds.  This can cause some missing data in the RRD file.  If
> > you don't have too much data, you may want to delete the RRD files
> > and have them record new data.  If this doesn't work, you can do
> > a dump of the file and create a new RRD file.  I don't know how
> > to do this however.  This may be a good question for the rrd
> > tool mailing list.
> 
> Is this relevant to this case?
> 
> Am I better off setting the late_interval value to interval + 950?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Duncan.
> 
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