[Orca-users] Re: orca errors

[mbanker1966]

hmmm... i'm already using version 1.32 of both cfg and se.

--- In orca-users at y..., Blair Zajac <blair at o...> wrote:
> mbanker1966 wrote:
> >
> > I started seeing a bunch of these lately:
> >
> > /usr/local/bin/orca: number of columns in line 224 of
> > `/usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/unixeng9/orcallator-2002-05-07-
000.Z'
> > does not match column description.
> > /usr/local/bin/orca: number of columns in line 225 of
> > `/usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/unixeng9/orcallator-2002-05-07-
000.Z'
> > does not match column description.
> >
> > Now, I'm using the same orcallator.se on all my systems, but I've
> > only noticed this error from a handful of them.  I'm using version
> > 1.32 of orcallator.se and orcallator.cfg.  On the systems where
I've
> > seen these errors, there are gaps in the charts.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> From Orca's FAQ:
>
> Warning Messages
> ----------------
>
>   2.1) Number of columns in line '1,2,3.....' of
>        ../orcallator/...../percol-2000-09-26 does not match column
>        description.
>
>        When Orca sees a line in an input data file that does not
have
>        the same number of columns as defined at the top of the file
>        when column_description is `first_line' or does not match the
>        column_description, then Orca will complain and ignore the
>        line.  Additionally, Orca will not record the data from this
>        line in the RRD files and no data will be plotted.
>
>        If this happens when using orcallator.se, then it will happen
>        for orcallator.se versions 1.28b6 or older when hardware,
mount
>        points, network interfaces, etc. are added or removed from
the
>        system and orcallator.se outputs a different number of
columns.
>
>        To work around this problem, upgrade to version 1.32 or later
>        of orcallator.se and orcallator.cfg at
>
>          http://www.orcaware.com/orca/pub/
>
>        which now create new output data file any time the number of
>        columns or a name of a column changes so that Orca will not
>        complain and all of your data will be plotted.
>
> --
> Blair Zajac <blair at o...>
> Web and OS performance plots - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/