Hi Kisho, On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 03:34:58PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > we got a strange error. We have some PPTP VPN users on the system and > collectd shows more and more active users, but only some are realy > active. After some weeks we have more than 500 users (if we belive > collectd) online and for real there are not more than 20 active. > > /var/log/utmp (last and who) shows the right count of users.
the Users plugin uses “getutxent” or “getutent” to get “struct utmpx” or “struct utmp” and counts all structs of type “USER_PROCESS”. Do you maybe have a ton of zombie processes haunting you? Regards, —octo -- Florian octo Forster Hacker in training GnuPG: 0x91523C3D http://verplant.org/
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