[Orca-users] Re: input record ... too long

[nikitelli]

--- In orca-users at y..., Rusty Carruth <rcarruth at t...> wrote:
> "nikitelli" <n.kraus at 3...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > due to the ongoing problem I had since yesterday - because I got
> > always:
> >
> > Warning: file `.../orcallator/host1/orcallator-2001-11-06-000'
> >        did exist and is now gone
> >
> > and I wasn't been able to solve it (I'm a little bit unhappy
about it
> > I have to admit, I also read the FAQ), I made a new orcallator
> > installation. Since I collected data only since 1 day that's no
> > problem .
> >
> > Anyhow, although I removed completely /var/orca and /opt/orca I
get
> > after  the first activation of
> > # /bin/start_orcallator
> >
> > /bin/nawk: input record `root    4383  0.0 ...' too long
> >  input record number 121
> >  source line number 1
> > ...
> > After a few minutes I also started orca and now I can see perfect
> > graphs.
> > But this message above: should I be concerned about it?
>
> Only if you REALLY want to have the information from the line
> that was too long, as I believe Nawk will drop overly-long
> lines.
>
> >  And where does this come from since I deleted all files?
>
> my guess is that either you missed an rrd file, or something is
dumping
> a single long line.  If you could figure out which file has that
> line in it and see if you can tell anything by looking at it, maybe
> that would answer both questions...  (That is: How, and do I care)
>
> Since its from orcallator, it sounds like the input to orcallator
> is too big (at line 121)....  I'd start looking at 'whoever'
> creates the input for orcallator.
>
> This is probably not much help, sorry! 
>
> rc

thanks for your review Rusty.
However, since the collection runs nonetheless still smoothly I'll
leave it at that for now.

Nick