Ben,
are you able to rebuild gmetad with the follwing qick fix? This seems
to solve it for me:
--- rrd_helpers.c-orig 2006-01-25 16:14:16.000000000 +0100
+++ rrd_helpers.c 2006-01-25 16:10:27.000000000 +0100
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
{
err_msg("RRD_update (%s): %s", rrd, rrd_get_error());
pthread_mutex_unlock( &rrd_mutex );
- return 1;
+ return 0;
}
/* debug_msg("Updated rrd %s with value %s", rrd, val); */
pthread_mutex_unlock( &rrd_mutex );
--- Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> --- Ben Hartshorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Jan 24 17:24:18 localhost /usr/sbin/gmetad[30443]: RRD_update
> > (/var/lib/ganglia/rrds/production/raiden-8-db1/users.rrd):
> conversion
> > of
> > 'min,' to float not complete: tail 'min,'
> >
> > This seems to relate to a recent change I made that I had forgotten
> > about. :) I added the following line to my crontab:
> >
> > */2 * * * * /usr/bin/gmetric --name="users" --value=`w | head -1 |
> > awk '{print $6}'` --type=int16
> >
>
> OK, as I discovered before, your command can put funny things like
> "min," into the metrics stream. Unfortunatelly, gmetric or gmond are
> stupid enough to handle that.
>
> I can now kind of reproduce your problem by inserting the following
> into the stream:
>
> gmetric --name="users" --type=int16 --value="min,"
>
> This appears then in both the gmond and gmetad XML. As a result, the
> "report" graphs on my cluster view show the gaps. As soon as I insert
> a
> number into the stream, the graphs work fine.
>
> But - I only see the gaps in the cluster overview. The node displays
> are not affected (both in the cluster overview and on the node
> pages).
>
> Seems we need to make gmetric or gmond more robust against junk. Or
> we
> need to see what the problem in the web interface is. Or both :-)
>
> Martin
>
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