[csw-maintainers] Ganglia using rrdcached by default?

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Daniel,

Am 28.11.2011 um 15:14 schrieb Daniel Pocock:
> rrdcached makes the Ganglia graphs appear much more quickly, and reduces
> IO load on the reporting server. It is present in the rrdtool packages,
> but no init script is supplied.
> 
> Various issues come to mind:
> 
> a) should the ganglia packages use rrdcached by default?

I would say no.

> b) how to start rrdcached?  Should rrdtool supply an init script?  Or
> should it be done from the gangliagmetad init script?

If at all it should be in rrdtool. If you have one I would be glad to add this to rrdtool.

> c) Can initsmf declare the dependency (gmetad depends on rrdcached if
> configured in this way)?

As Peter said you can do this with a custom manifest, but I don't think this is
a good idea in general. An experienced user can easily set this up himself IMHO.


Best regards

  -- Dago

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