[mrtg] Re: MRTG instances

[Jelle Beusen]

Tr cuting down the size of your cfg files !!

some instances are indeed taking to long to finish running...

I monitor several types of stats here and I had to cut down  the size aswell
by half and now all the errors have gone.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ni Patrick-A11024" <Patrick.Ni at motorola.com>
To: <mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 8:01 PM
Subject: [mrtg] MRTG instances


> Hi,
>
>     With more targets being monitored, I recently get more and more
messages
> like:
>
> "ERROR: I guess another mrtg is running. A lockfile
> (/local/mrtg-2.8.12/run/c1900
> -comp-4/c1900-comp-4.cfg_l) aged
> 298 seconds is hanging around. If you are sure that no other mrtg
> is running you can remove the lockfile"
>
>     I think the monitoring machine gets so busy with a lot of "I/O
Waiting"
> that it just could
> not finish the cron jobs starting at minute "0" before cron jobs at minute
> "1" get started.
>
>     I used the "Forks: 4" options but got "unknown option" error message.
My
> MRTG
> version is 2.8.12 on Sun Soloaris. My question is: is "Forks:4" option
only
> working
> on MRTG 2.9.0 and above? If yes, I have to upgrade my MRTG
>
> Thanks.
> Patrick Ni (Email: a11024 at email.mot.com)
> UNIX System Administrator, Motorola Vancouver
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