[collectd] collectd plugin intervals

[Florian Forster]

Hi Hrisheekesh,

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 04:32:56PM +0530, Hrisheekesh Kale wrote:
> Is it possible to configure different check intervals for different
> collectd plugins?

no, not yet. It's something that has been on our "would be nice" list
for a while now. The code is basically all in place, we'd just need some
clever way to configure that. Currently my favorite concept is this:

In addition to

  LoadPlugin foobar

allow to use

  <LoadPlugin foobar>
    Interval 5
  </LoadPlugin>

This would then pass a "struct { double interval; }"-pointer to the
"module_register" function which in turn passes the information to the
register_read function. An alternative would be to set the default
interval to $x before calling "module_register" and restoring the old
value afterwards. Maybe a combination of both, to that not all plugins
have to be changed but plugins which register their read function in the
config or init phases (i.e. after the global default has been restored
again) can still behave correctly.

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-octo
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