Hi Lukas, On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Lukas Bednar <lbed...@redhat.com> wrote: > we use collectd to monitor specific processes on our > machines. But there is problem that these specific > processes execute another processes (children) which > generate considerable load. These child-processes isn't > counted to statistic data of specific process. So we would > like improve this plugin with ProcessTree and > ProcessMatchTree option. > > I would like know whether there is no similar > functionality in order avoid to duplicity.
As far as I can see there isn't. But I would like to propose another way to solve the problem. I'd like processes to be matched by environment. So it probably solves both your problem of matching children (because children are usually inherit environment), and our problem of differentiating several processes of same name. Like: COLLECTD_NAME=abc python manage.py runserver COLLECTD_NAME=def python manage.py runserver (usually in different directories, if you care). It would also be useful to specify regexp for environment variable name: EnvironMatch "USER=(.*)" EnvironMatch "PYTHONPATH=/data/www/(.*)/lib" With first capture group being name of the process in collectd. Also I find it easier to implement than subtree search. Thoughts? -- Paul _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list collectd@verplant.org http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd
