Bug#790796: sensord: RRD data loss

On 2017-04-26 09:38:09 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 17:22 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Hmm, it only works for one change, after that the .old file will be > > overwritten causing the data loss. I guess the filename should include > > the date and time. Or an index that

Bug#790796: sensord: RRD data loss

On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 17:22 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > What's your use case for sensord without RRD? Logging values and alarms > into syslog? Yes, when a machine powers off overnight, having that info in syslog helps diagnose what happened. > In that case we might just want to

Bug#790796: sensord: RRD data loss

On 2017-04-25 17:22:37 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > While that might work (provided we keep multiple versions of the file), > I think the data are not really usable as each period will have a > different format. The real way to fix that would be to use one RRD file > per sensor, but it becomes a

Bug#790796: sensord: RRD data loss

On 2017-04-12 12:24, Paul Wise wrote: > This was an unfortunate outcome for those of us who use sensord but do > not use the RRD mode at all. I think it would have been better to just > disable the RRD mode, but that wouldn't have been the right solution. What's your use case for sensord without

Bug#790796: sensord: RRD data loss

On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 10:31 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I've attached a patch which renames the old RRD file > and creates a new one. Could we add it and restore sensord? Attached a better version of the patch with two fixes: * No memory leak * Updates the new RRD after creation -- bye, pabs

Bug#790796: sensord: RRD data loss

Control: tags -1 + patch On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 08:42 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I'm going to try to write a patch to achieve this now. I've attached a patch which renames the old RRD file and creates a new one. Could we add it and restore sensord? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Bug#790796: sensord: RRD data loss

On Wed, 05 Apr 2017 12:09:00 + Niels Thykier wrote: > Sounds like we should just sensord now while it still "sort of works" > rather than dragging on with it until it breaks irrevocably. This was an unfortunate outcome for those of us who use sensord but do not use the RRD mode at all. I

Bug#790796: sensord: RRD data loss

On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 23:30:26 +0200 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Hi, > > On 2015-07-01 21:08, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Package: sensord > > Version: 1:3.3.5-2 > > Severity: grave > > Justification: causes non-serious data loss > > > > It seems that sensord uses an inconsistent

Bug#790796: sensord: RRD data loss

On 2015-08-09 00:21, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Hi, On 2015-08-08 23:30:26 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: From what I have been able to get the problem is that when using a single rrd file for all data, the number of columns (ie sensors) is defined when the file is created. Therefore the

Bug#790796: sensord: RRD data loss

Hi, On 2015-07-01 21:08, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Package: sensord Version: 1:3.3.5-2 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss It seems that sensord uses an inconsistent set of data for its RRD update, yielding data loss. rrd update no longer updates the sensord.rrd

Bug#790796: sensord: RRD data loss

Hi, On 2015-08-08 23:30:26 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: From what I have been able to get the problem is that when using a single rrd file for all data, the number of columns (ie sensors) is defined when the file is created. Therefore the upgrade of your kernel changed the number of sensors,

Bug#790796: sensord: RRD data loss

On 2015-07-01 21:08:19 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: It seems that sensord uses an inconsistent set of data for its RRD update, yielding data loss. rrd update no longer updates the sensord.rrd database: [...] This has happened again on a different machine. The update of the RRD database

Bug#790796: sensord: RRD data loss

It seems to be a bug similar to bug 614965. -- Vincent Lefèvre vinc...@vinc17.net - Web: https://www.vinc17.net/ 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: https://www.vinc17.net/blog/ Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#790796: sensord: RRD data loss

Package: sensord Version: 1:3.3.5-2 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss It seems that sensord uses an inconsistent set of data for its RRD update, yielding data loss. rrd update no longer updates the sensord.rrd database: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82480 2015-05-13 00:25:00