[Orca-users] Re: More questions from an orca newbie

[Blair Zajac]

Currently Orca cannot handle data files that change the number
of columns in the middle of the file.  This will be fixed, but not
shortly.  So the new data columns will only get loaded when the
next day's output file is generated.

You will probably get email often about the missing gzip files.

The gzip processes will eventually go away.  It keeps up to a
maximum of 150 of them.  Do you think we should switch
to using a Perl module that will do this instead of forking?

Blair

Charles Dennett wrote:

> From: Charles Dennett <charles.dennett at kodak.com>
>
> Pardon these questions but I'm new to orca.
>
> 1.  Installed orca yesterday.  Grabbed the latest orca and orcallator.se.
> Last night I noticed Blair and put new orcallator.se and .cfg files
> on the ftp site.  I grabbed those.  Orcallator.se added a couple
> of fields to its output.  When I installed the new version orca made
> some complaints about the number of fields in the data file.  Since
> I had just installed everything earlier in the day, I simply deleted
> the data file and rrd files and started from scratch.  I did not
> noticed any additional graphs.  Even did a diff on the new and
> previous versions of the config file to check.  Perhaps the new
> data collected by orcallatoe is not used yet?
>
> What's the proper way to add a new orcallator.se script if it changes
> the output from the previous version?
>
> 2.  Just after midnight I got several email messages saying the percol
> files for the previous day was missing.  Actually they was just gzipped
> by either orca or orcallator.  Will I get these emails every day?
>
> 3.  I was playing around with orca this morning and had to restart it.
> It forked off gunzip processes for each servers gzipped percol files
> from the previous day.  The gunzip processes don't seem to go away.
> Will these continue to build up or will they eventually go away?
>
> 4.   In reading through the archives for this list on the onelist.com
> web site I came across a message I sent last night plus a reply
> from Blair.  I never received the reply in my mailbox so I don't
> know if there's a mail problem somewhere or not.  I have yet to
> receive any email from this list, although I only joined it yesterday.
> (Wait a minute.  Maybe our corporate eamil spam filters are kicking
> messages out.  I'll have to check with my friend who is in charge of
> that.)
>
> Thanks for any help and for putting up with my questions.
>
> --
> Charles Dennett
> Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY
> Sitemaster - http://www.kodak.com
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