[Orca-users] Stale data, something's not running?

[David Michaels]

First, you really should get the latest build.  But your version number 
is not the problem, I don't think.

procollator collects Orca data, but it does not turn it into charts.  
There should be an 'orca' process running as well, to crunch the data 
that is collected, and turn it into graphs and webpages and whatnot.  Do 
you have an orca process running?  Perhaps there's no start script for 
it, which would explain why it didn't restart after a reboot.  Or, 
perhaps there is a startup script, but it had a problem when it tried to 
start Orca.  Try starting it manually, and see what happens.

Cheers,
--Dragon


OG wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have Orca 0.27 on one of the machines I run.  It worked perfectly until I reboot the box.  Now, even though everything looks like it's running well, the charts are not being updated.
>
> I have procallator.pl running, and as far as I can recall, that's the only Orca-related script/process that I should see running.  I see it's running and doing something, as it's dumping data to the dir specified in $DEST_DIR:
> $DEST_DIR="/usr/local/var/orca/vis"
>
> However, other that the "vis" directory under /usr/local/var/orca/, everying else is stale.  Any idea what's not running?
>
> $ ls -al /usr/local/var/orca/
> total 72
> drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  4096 Aug 29 00:03 .
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 Apr 30  2006 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Apr 30  2006 orcallator
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 Aug 29 00:03 procallator
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  4096 Apr 30  2006 rrd
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 32768 Oct 17 00:00 vis
>
>
> I have a feeling orca.state file is important.  It looks okay to me, but who knows, maybe it's corrupt?
> $ ls -al /usr/local/var/orca/rrd/procallator/
> total 108
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 Aug 21 17:52 .
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  4096 Apr 30  2006 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Apr 30  2006 o_.
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 79360 Aug 21 17:36 orca.state
>
> Can I remove orca.state without losing all past data and see if that helps things?
>
> So because of all this, I see files like these, that have not been updated since I rebooted the box:
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   30496 Aug 21 10:28 index.html
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   52128 Aug 21 10:27 o_.-all.html
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   17495 Aug 21 10:27 o_.-daily.html
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root    8973 Aug 21 11:25 o_._gauge_1runq,__5runq,__15runq,__ncpus-daily.png
> ...
>
> And thus my stats are all stale.... and I'm looking for the piece that I need to kick and get going.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> Thank you,
>
> Otis
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