[Orca-users] Multiple graphs of same data

[Charles R. Dennett]

Woo Hoo!!!   Thanks.  I'll try this as soon as I get a chance  (which may
not bee too soon since I run orca on my home linux system and my
"honey-do" list is a mile long at the moment.  Hmmm.  I wonder if the wife
would notice it if I added "upgrade orca" to the list?)

Charlie

Blair Zajac said:
> Charles Dennett wrote:
>
>> This is a common problem with orca.  It happens because some local
>> mounted partitions (ie. not NFS mounts)come and go.  It could be from
>> a removable media like a floppy or CD.  It could be because to mounted
>> some otehr disk partition for whatever reason.  It seems that every
>> different combination results in yet another disk space and disk inode
>> graph.
>>
>> I don't know if this has ever been fixed in orca.
>
> Hi Charlie,
>
> It's fixed now!!!  Finally.  Try the latest snapshot to see if it fixes
> the  problems:
>
> http://www.orcaware.com/orca/pub/snapshots/
>
>> However, quite a while ago someone published to this list a perl
>> program that can be used to "fix" this problem. It does not fix it
>> permanently, but it will  condense the multiple graphs down to one.
>> It's called orca-fix.pl (or orcafix.pl - don't recall exactly which
>> one.)  It does this by rewriting all the previous orcallator data
>> files (you do keep them, right?) to match one that you claim is good
>> (usually the latest one.)
>>
>> Instructions for its use are in comments at the beginning of the file.
>>  Essentially, you fix all the data files with orcafix on all the
>> systems that have the multiple graphs.  Then on the orca machine you
>> delete (yes, delete) all the RRD file for these systems.  Then you run
>> orca and it will rebuild all the RRD file from the data files.
>>
>> Search the list archives (or google) for orcafix.
>
> And orcafix should not be necessary.
>
> Blair
>
> --
> Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
> Plots of your system's performance - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/


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Charlie