[rrd-developers] rrdcached shutdown

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Kevin,

Today kevin brintnall wrote:

> Florian and Tobi,
>
> Currently the daemon can take a long time to shut down, because it flushes
> all updates out to RRDs...  If it's part of a system shutdown, then it
> will likely take too long and receive a SIGKILL.
>
> If we are journaling updates, it's not strictly necessary to flush all
> RRDs out to disk..  When the daemon starts back up it can re-create its
> memory state with the journal.
>
> What do you think about an expedited shutdown if we are journaling
> updates?  We could simply flush the journal and exit.

this would make sense to me ... maybe have different behaviour
depending on the signal it gets ?

cheers
tobi
>
>

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