This one time, at band camp, Paolo Lucente wrote: >On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 02:14:00AM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > >> Ok. Does this mean that unless the config options 'sql_history' and >> 'sql_history_roundoff' exist, then pmacctd will not write time stamps to the >> database? > >yes.
Thanks for the clarification. >> I've done so, but I've also added these two config options back to my config >> file, and I'm seeing a lot of 'We are missing data' errors in the syslog. > >Such error shouldn't be related in any way with the stamps. It signals that >the shared memory segment between the Core Process (which collects packets >from the network) and the Plugin (which writes flows into the DB) is full. (*) > >It's very likely that you have not enabled bufferization. Try adding to your >configuration the two following lines (then tune the parameters in order to >fit your scenario): > >=== >plugin_pipe_size: 8192000 >plugin_buffer_size: 4096 >=== Ok, I already have a plugin_pipe_size, but no buffer_size. Anyway, there were only a couple of 'We are missing data' messages at startup so I suspect they are transient. Thanks.