Hi, On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:40:13AM +0200, Sebastian Harl wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 04:20:14PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > When collectd logs via rrdcached, and rrdcached is restarted, > > collectd spews errors instead of trying to reconnect. > > Thanks for reporting this and sorry for the slow reply :-/ > > This issue is related to how the rrdcached client library works. It only > supports a single connection and caches that in a global variable. > collectd calls rrdc_connect on each write but the function will simple > return success if it succeeded previously. > > I think what we'll have to do is > (a) in collectd, close the connection on error and, thus, trigger an > actual reconnect; possibly use exponential back-off
I've got https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/1959 pending for this. > (b) improve the RRDtool API ;-) And https://github.com/oetiker/rrdtool-1.x/pull/742 for this. Cheers, Sebastian -- Sebastian "tokkee" Harl +++ GnuPG-ID: 0x2F1FFCC7 +++ http://tokkee.org/ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
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