I only did some very primitive testing and what I did seemed to work. But
it would be good to hear if it actually works the way you expect it to. ;)
-mark
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Vishal Gupta <[email protected]>wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Sound good, covers both my enhancement requests and in addition gives the
> configurable floating window timeframe (i.e. 60 minutes or 2 hours etc).
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
>
> *From: *Mark Seger <[email protected]>
>
> *Subject: *Re: colplot - Slow index.cgi
>
> *Date: *29 October 2012 18:52:41 GMT
>
> *To: *Vishal Gupta <[email protected]>
>
> *Cc: *"[email protected]" <
> [email protected]>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Vishal Gupta <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> When i comment the following lines in /usr/bin/colplot, colplot index
>> page is displayed instantaneously.
>>
>> findFiles(3, $mycfg, $pparams, "$dir$sep*", undef) ||
>> error("No plottable files match your selection criteria. Are
>> your dir and/or file protections right?");
>>
>> I guess i could live with index page displaying the hardcoded with
>> "fdate=>20010101, tdate=>29991231", it means front page is quick. One could
>> always click on "List Dir" to display the files if they wanted to know, but
>> there is no benefit in slowing down the landing page of colplot. But then,
>> colplot by default only displays current local servers files, and collectl
>> is configured by default to store only last 7 days files unless one change
>> retention policy in /etc/collectl.conf.
>>
>> I have changed the default PlotDir in /etc/colplot.conf to my NFS share
>> which is holding plot'able files from lots of servers for lots of days
>> (actually no deletion at all, as i want to maintain the history). So
>> searching through all the files to find first and last days file name was
>> taking 4-5 secs and slowing down landing page. It would have only got
>> slower and slower, as number of files would increase over time. So, i have
>> changed /usr/bin/colplot to command out above two files.
>>
>> On all my servers, I have also changed the default radio button selection
>> to Last 60 minutes, as some of the user forget to check that and end up
>> trying to generate graphs for entire history. So i would rather let them
>> change the period from default of last 60 minutes to something longer
>> instead of defaulting to entire history.
>>
>> I wonder whether it would be worthwhile having following as the
>> configuration options
>>
>> - Default timeframe, whether it should be fixed timeframe or floating
>> timeframe.
>> - Enable/Disable searching through files to find first/last day of
>> available history.
>>
>>
> I think these are both excellent ideas and am just about to add to the
> next release. However as I think about it, unless I'm missing something,
> aren't they mutually exclusive? I'm thinking of an option in colplot.conf
> called deftimeframe and for valid value have:
> - auto, meaning to look at the dates of all the files by calling
> findfiles() and this would be the default
> -none, meaning don't change the dates by not calling findfiles()
> - float[=xxx], would skip calling findfiles() and set the floating
> timeframe to 60 or if =xxx included set it to that.
>
> Pretty slick, right? ;)
>
> -mark
>
>
>
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