I see the comments made in logfetch.c
/* Is it ok for these to be hardcoded ? */ #define MAXCHECK 102400 /* When starting, dont look at more than 100 KB of data */ #define MAXMINUTES 30 #define POSCOUNT ((MAXMINUTES / 5) + 1) #define LINES_AROUND_TRIGGER 5
My answer to this would be, "no".
Due to various reasons, it is not desirable to run my client more than
once every hour. Therefore, the msgs check for log files is almost
useless unless I change these values (and honestly, I'm not even sure
that would work as I haven't seen if this would impact anything else).
If I ran my client every hour, I would lose 50% of my log data.
I would like to see where the log check would be dependent on how long of an interval your client is run as opposed to a hard coded 30 minutes.
-- Michael Beatty
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On 02/25/2013 03:55 PM, Michael Beatty wrote:
I see the comments made in logfetch.c
/* Is it ok for these to be hardcoded ? */ #define MAXCHECK 102400 /* When starting, dont look at more than 100 KB of data */ #define MAXMINUTES 30 #define POSCOUNT ((MAXMINUTES / 5) + 1) #define LINES_AROUND_TRIGGER 5
My answer to this would be, "no".
Due to various reasons, it is not desirable to run my client more than once every hour. Therefore, the msgs check for log files is almost useless unless I change these values (and honestly, I'm not even sure that would work as I haven't seen if this would impact anything else). If I ran my client every hour, I would lose 50% of my log data.
I would like to see where the log check would be dependent on how long of an interval your client is run as opposed to a hard coded 30 minutes.
I personally have no need for this change at the moment, but I agree that no it's not OK for them to be hardcoded. Seems to be an easy enough change to make and there's virtually no benefit (that I can think of) to hard coding.
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On 02/25/2013 03:55 PM, Michael Beatty wrote:
I see the comments made in logfetch.c
/* Is it ok for these to be hardcoded ? */ #define MAXCHECK 102400 /* When starting, dont look at more than 100 KB of data */ #define MAXMINUTES 30 #define POSCOUNT ((MAXMINUTES / 5) + 1) #define LINES_AROUND_TRIGGER 5
My answer to this would be, "no".
Due to various reasons, it is not desirable to run my client more than once every hour. Therefore, the msgs check for log files is almost useless unless I change these values (and honestly, I'm not even sure that would work as I haven't seen if this would impact anything else). If I ran my client every hour, I would lose 50% of my log data.
I would like to see where the log check would be dependent on how long of an interval your client is run as opposed to a hard coded 30 minutes.
I personally have no need for this change at the moment, but I agree that no it's not OK for them to be hardcoded. Seems to be an easy enough change to make and there's virtually no benefit (that I can think of) to hard coding.
That does seem a little suspect. There definitely needs to be *some* sort of safety max_buffer size, but perhaps in this day of disk space out the yin-yang it warrants an increase.
The POSCOUNT/MAXMINUTES values are compile time defines, but there might be a better way to derive from the last run how far back to go... And the "current" run interval (except when using CRONDATE) is put into the environment at runtime by to xymonlaunch.
-jc
On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:55:06 -0500, Michael Beatty <Michael.Beatty at sherwin.com> wrote:
I see the comments made in logfetch.c
/* Is it ok for these to be hardcoded ? */ #define MAXCHECK 102400 /* When starting, dont look at more than 100
KB of data */ #define MAXMINUTES 30 #define POSCOUNT ((MAXMINUTES / 5) + 1) #define LINES_AROUND_TRIGGER 5
My answer to this would be, "no".
Due to various reasons, it is not desirable to run my client more than once every hour. Therefore, the msgs check for log files is almost useless unless I change these values (and honestly, I'm not even sure that would work as I haven't seen if this would impact anything else).
If I ran my client every hour, I would lose 50% of my log data.I would like to see where the log check would be dependent on how long of an interval your client is run as opposed to a hard coded 30 minutes.
OK, just to clarify what these are for:
- MAXCHECK is only used when the client has not run before, to avoid searching gigabytes of log data. It does not affect how log files are processed during normal client-cycles - that is controlled by the logsize setting in client-local.cfg.
- MAXMINUTES is only used to calculate POSCOUNT.
- POSCOUNT determines how many of the previous client cycles the client will include in the client-data as "current logfile data".
What this means is that the "30" is really a red herring - what matters is that the client will send data from the logfile generated during the last 7 times the client ran. So if the client runs only once an hour, then you'll have logdata from the past 6 hours included in the client data.
Regards, Henrik
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