On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Michal Kara wrote:
> > From what I can gather, you should use a Makefile to drive cpp in the
> > /var/pcp/config/pmlogger directory.
>
> I have created such Makefile. It is universal - it takes all .src files and
> preprocesses them and it also automagically handles dependencies. I can send
> it
> to you, if you are interested.
yes please. There would be no harm in including it in the pcp distro. As with
your previous contributions, you need to give it to SGI before I can include
it in the distribution.
>
> > I think all of this pmlogger management stuff you need is already
> > available. Check out the man page for pmlogger_check(1). This is an
> > extensible cron based pcp archive log management infrastructure driven
> > by the control file in /var/pcp/config/pmlogger/control. Suitable/example
> > cron entries are in /var/pcp/config/pmlogger/crontab.
>
> What I wanted to have is command "restart pmlogger for server
> host1.domain.com". But it is not too complicated, I realized that the names of
> the servers are in commandline of the process, so "ps x | grep pmlogger" and
> then kill the process works.
so this is a "kill and then restart" situation, right? pmlogger_check will only
only start the pmloggers if they have died or not running ...
> (I use pmlogger_check and pmlogger_daily and also
> my own script to merge all logs for each of the monitored hosts (made when pcp
> restarted or pmda went down...))
pmlogger_daily and/or pmlogger_merge should be enough to merge the daily
logs .. but knowing you, your own script was necessary ;-)
>
> > That is far too much CPU time for such a low fetch rate. Can you send me
> > your
> > pmlogger configs and/or gprof /var/pcp/pmdas/linux/pmdalinux (this is the
> > daemon form of the linux PMDA dso, so you can profile it. You'll need to
> > edit /var/pcp/config/pmcd/pmcd.conf to change from DSO to daemon).
>
> Hmpf, it is much better today (???) Maybe some kind of error... If it
> appears
> again, I will investigate it...
>
ok thanks
-- Mark
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