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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Rick Silacci <<a href="mailto:rick@velociter.net">rick@velociter.net</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 10:38 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch">mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch</a>" <<a href="mailto:mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch">mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[mrtg] MRTG graphs - "In" is constantly @ 4000 k and out is constant @ about 20k<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And MRTG doesn’t run constant. It only runs for a second after I run the startup command. Any ideas?</span></b></p>
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<div>By default, mrtg runs for just one pass. You can either run it via cron or use the runasdaemon setup.</div>
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<div>Cron has the advantage that the config files are read every 5 minutes, so it reflect changes to your configuration faster.</div>
<div>Runasdaemon has the advantage that mrtg doesn’t need to parse the config files for every polling cycle. That’s a significant consideration when polling a couple of thousand devices.</div>
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<div>See:</div>
<div><a href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/doc/mrtg-unix-guide.en.html#RUNNING_MRTG_CONTENT">http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/doc/mrtg-unix-guide.en.html#RUNNING_MRTG_CONTENT</a></div>
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