[collectd] Re: Re: Re: New plugin developer documentation

[cydvd at autistici.org]

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>> there was a mail, about a week ago, by Rolandas Juodzbalis, who wants to
>> do something that sounds very similar. Maybe you should get in touch
>> with him..

> My idea is simply calculating number of running process. As I'm running
> web hosting machine, I'm interested seeing how many apache and mysql
> instances are running. This is done, left only integration in to collectd.
>
> Rolandas

My idea is a little bit different: i want a graph for each process in a 
list (for example stored in the configuration file /etc/collectd.conf), 
which includes metrics like vsize, rss, utime, stime, cutime.
The first idea don't take care of multiple instances of a process with 
a specific name; for this evenience, it would be interesting count all 
the instances of the process and plot the cumulative metrics for the 
various processes with the same name.

David