[Orca-users] Re: Orca & filename length

[Blair Zajac]

Chris,

I must have added this in my unreleased followups to Orca 0.23.

Anyway, can you send me the complete output from Orca for a complete
run.  Pass in the -o flag to have Orca run only once through.

Thanks,
Blair


Chris Dietzler wrote:
> 
> Blair,
>         I launched Orca with the -v option but still did not get the Version
> info displayed. Could you tell me how to do that?
> 
> Chris Dietzler
> Production Engineer
> Ingram Micro
> (714) 382-2659, pager (714) 359-5189
> mailto:chris.dietzler at ingrammicro.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blair Zajac [mailto:bzajac at geostaff.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 11:29 AM
> To: Chris Dietzler
> Cc: Mike DuFresne; orca-help at onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [Orca-help] Orca & filename length
> 
> Chris,
> 
> I looked through your files and have the following comments.
> 
> 1) It doesn't look like you gave me all of the output from orca
>    from the beginning, where it says Orca Version ....  Could you
>    send that also.  This will let me see the problem with the
>    undefined values on line 533.  Line 533 does not seem to be
>    anything special
> 
>       push(@options, "$line_type:average$i#$color:$legend");
> 
> .  If you want, you can put the following code just before or after
>    that line
> 
>       my $tmp = "$line_type";
>       $tmp = "$i";
>       $tmp = "$color";
>       $tmp = "$legend";
> 
>    Then the undefined value warning will be printed again and we
>    can get a handle on which value is undefined.
> 
> 2) You have a machine with a large number of Ethernet ports and the
>    way Orca is doing its naming of files may be causing problems since
>    each port gets 36 characters in the name:
> 
> 
> /usr/local/var/docroot/uscaapp03/orcallator_uscaapp03_qfe0NoCP_per_s,orcalla
> tor_
> 
> uscaapp03_qfe1NoCP_per_s,orcallator_uscaapp03_qfe2NoCP_per_s,orcallator_usca
> app0
> 
> 3_qfe3NoCP_per_s,orcallator_uscaapp03_qfe4NoCP_per_s,orcallator_uscaapp03_qf
> e5No
> 
> CP_per_s,orcallator_uscaapp03_qfe6NoCP_per_s,orcallator_uscaapp03_qfe7NoCP_p
> er_s
>     -daily.gif
> 
> .  With the number of ports you have,    this creates rather lengthy
>    filenames.  Maybe there's also an issue with 2.6 being better than
>    2.5.1 here.  I'll have to do some thinking on shorting these names
>    to improve caching of the names and not running into this problem.
> 
> Blair
> 
> Chris Dietzler wrote:
> >
> > Blair,
> >         I am getting the same errors. Attached is the output from Orca. I
> am
> > also sending the Orca file. Can you figure out what the first lines from
> the
> > orcaout.txt mean?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chris Dietzler
> > Production Engineer
> > Ingram Micro
> > (714) 382-2659, pager (714) 359-5189
> > mailto:chris.dietzler at ingrammicro.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Blair Zajac [mailto:bzajac at geostaff.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 8:53 AM
> > To: Mike DuFresne
> > Cc: orca-help at onelist.com
> > Subject: Re: [orca-help] orca & filename length
> >
> > Helo Mike,
> >
> > Things may have gotten fixed after more data was collected by
> > orcallator.se.  It takes anywhere from 2.5 to 7.5 minutes for
> > it to deliver its first measurement to the data files.
> >
> > I've never seen the 'cannot open mtime for <file>' message before.
> > How many characters long is the filename in question?  When you
> > run Orca with the -v option, where does it generate this message?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Blair
> >
> > Mike DuFresne wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Mike DuFresne <xdufresn at raytheon.com>
> > >
> > > I have been trying to get orca to play nice on four apparently identical
> > > servers (OS wise). But I have been running into various _different_
> > > problems with each installation. As I am relatively new to system
> > > administration, and I am not a programmer, I am sure I'm missing
> > > something somewhere.
> > >
> > > Three of the servers are UE4500s running 2.5.1. The fourth is an Ultra1.
> > > I have installed and patched SE 3.0 on all of the boxes. I have also
> > > compiled and installed perl-5.005.03 for each box.
> > >
> > > On one of the boxes, I was getting the error that 'find_files' from
> > > orcallator.cfg was sans data. If I changed the cfg file to add the
> > > server name, it seemed to find the files, but none of the data was
> > > readable by Netscape.
> > > ie: all broken gifs. Suprisingly enough, after diddling around for a
> > > bit, I replaced the server name with the original (.*) and it started
> > > working.
> > >
> > > Two of the UE4500s are getting 'cannot open mtime for <file>: filename
> > > too long errors. I haven't been able to fix that.
> > >
> > > For what its worth, I have had SE/Orca working flawlessly on an Ultra5
> > > and an Ultra2 with 2.6.
> > >
> > > I'd appreciate any assistence,
> > >
> > > Best Regards
> > >
> > > Mike DuFresne
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> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> >                      Name: orcaoutput.txt
> >    orcaoutput.txt    Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> >                  Encoding: quoted-printable
> >
> >            Name: orca
> >    orca    Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
> >        Encoding: quoted-printable
> >
> >                Name: orca.cfg
> >    orca.cfg    Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
> >            Encoding: quoted-printable