Henrik, I was looking at the size of the logs and some of them are quite large. The largest is the larrd-status.log which has lots of entries like this:
2005-03-05 17:53:37 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/satlcwr01/disk,E.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1110063217 when last update time is 1110063217 (minimum one second step) s 1110063217 (minimum one second step) 2005-03-05 17:53:37 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/satlcwr01/users.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1110063217 when last update time is 1110063217 (minimum one second step) 2005-03-05 17:53:37 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/satlcwr01/disk,C.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1110063217 when last update time is 1110063217 (minimum one second step) 2005-03-05 17:53:37 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/satlcwr01/disk,E.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1110063217 when last update time is 1110063217 (minimum one second step)
what does this mean?
Other than troubleshooting, are the logs used for any other function? Can I delete them?
Thanks
Kevin
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On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 06:02:24PM -0500, Kevin.Hanrahan at novainfo.com wrote:
Henrik, I was looking at the size of the logs and some of them are quite large. The largest is the larrd-status.log which has lots of entries like this:
2005-03-05 17:53:37 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/satlcwr01/disk,E.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1110063217 when last update time is 1110063217 (minimum one second step)
- what does this mean?
This means that an update of the RRD file failed. The actual text describing the error is provided by the rrdtool library - in this case, it refused to update the file because it's been less than one second since the last update.
So how can it happen that it tries to update the same RRD file twice in a second ? I've seen it mostly with data from network tests, e.g. if you happen to have the same host or test listed twice in your bb-hosts file. With client reports (cpu, disk, ..) it can happen if you have two clients reporting with the same name. Or it may be a bug in the hobbit larrd handler, so it mistakenly sees the same data twice.
- Other than troubleshooting, are the logs used for any other function?
No.
Can I delete them?
Yes, but they are kept open by the various hobbitd* processes running. hobbitlaunch and hobbitd will re-open the logs when you send them a SIGHUP, but the various hobbitd_* modules don't. I'll get that fixed.
Regards, Henrik
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