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Octopussy - Open Source Log Management Solution
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Strange effects with RRD graph generation #459

Open sebthebert opened 10 years ago

sebthebert commented 10 years ago

I added this as a feature request, but not as a bg since I don\'t know whether this is one. Further I selected category \"Dispatcher\" but not \"Interface Improvements\", since I think the dispatcher is pretty much involved in this.

For this feature request (a help request actually) I added some files contained within an archive. These are basically screen shots, crontab and scripts for you to verify.

The problem I have/the feature I request is basically that:

  1. Logs are not dying down over time so a restart of Octopussy via crontab is not required anymore. As seen from the monthly graph that happens and I don\'t know why.

  2. Octopussy to (somehow) buffer logs until completely restarted. Maybe we should implement the concept of different softwares like Apache2 with \"reload\" and \"restart\" where reload does not kill a main process.

  3. The RRD graph tool (I just had a quick look at the code) may have to be altered to satisfy the aforementioned needs.

I hope there is an easy solution to this. Maybe I\'m interpreting the data wrong, but maybe logs get lost within the system which demands those restarts every 8 hours or the RRD graph tool simply misbehaves. In case you need more data please tell me and I can send you nearly every file (code and configuration) from our Octopussy installation.

sebthebert commented 10 years ago

Date: 2012-11-14 10:34:31 Author: hollstein

screen shots, crontab and scripts

Attachment: http://sourceforge.net/p/syslog-analyzer/feature-requests/_discuss/thread/34c4852c/5e07/attachment/octopussy.tar.bz2

sebthebert commented 10 years ago

Date: 2012-11-14 10:35:15 Author: hollstein

sebthebert commented 10 years ago

Date: 2012-11-15 09:32:30 Author: hollstein

Hello,

since SF doesn't allow me to upload more than one attachment I uploaded another two images to my server. As you can see from these I disabled the cron jobs (octo-sanity-support) and the logs started dying down. Therefore there is of coure a corellation between DX and LX, since reloads cause CPU-usage. However the problem is not the CPU usage which I can handle, but the starvation of logs within the RRD-Graph. Maybe I should have a look at the raw logs and see whether less log data is stored on disks over time? :-]

URL: tron-delta.org/octo-nagios-croellation-dw-2012-11-14-sls-cn.tar.bz2

sebthebert commented 10 years ago

Date: 2012-11-16 10:44:09 Author: hollstein

Should I file a bug report on this? do you need further data to assist you in analyzing the problem?