[mrtg] Re: One Master Config versus Several

[William Owen]

I do the inverse of the master.cfg.  I create an include.cfg and place an
Include: include.cfg at the top of each of my device config files.  This way
you can still standardize all of the things like html, log and image
directories as well as where RRDTool is installed without having to have all
of your configs launched via a single process.  You can then spread the
configs out via cron or whatever you like in order to prevent them all from
running at the same time.  Also, if you are running in an M$ environment
that does not allow for forks, it gives you the ability to run two (or more)
configs at the same time in parallel processes.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bigelow, Andrea L. [mailto:BigelowA at SEC.GOV] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:52 PM
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] Re: One Master Config versus Several

 My thoughts are that doing all that including in a single mrtg.cfg file
eats up a lot of resources and I could make better use of what I have by
spreading things around a little bit.

Has anyone tried this? If so, what happened? Would this help stop
overlapping processes? Or would it still have the same problem just with
more files to maintain and worry about?

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Chuck, 

It sounds to me like you might benefit from splitting your file into several
pieces and then forcing it to sleep for about 30 seconds between files, to
ensure that you're not running into race conditions. 

Andi

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