Package: collectd Version: 4.8.1-2 Severity: normal Documentation in /usr/share/doc/collectd and the collectd.conf manual page should include the warning published at http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/First_steps
"The Interval setting controls how often values are read. You should set this once and then never touch it again. If you do, you will have to delete all your RRD files or know some serious RRDtool magic! " Even better: collectd should detect when Interval is changed in the configuration file and refuse restarting, with a warning message. Right now, as the package is installed, the collectd daemon is automatically started with the default Interval value (10 secs); if one then changes the Interval setting and restarts the daemon, the rrd files will be silently filled with "NaN" values, and the user will only notice this when generating graphs from the rrd files. -- System Information: (none of interest) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
