[collectd] Varnish plugin

[Jerome Renard]

Hi Marc,

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Marc Fournier
<marc.fournier at camptocamp.com> wrote:
> Jérôme,
>
>> can you please pull the changes from my branch:
>> - http://github.com/jeromer/collectd/
>>
>> I just pushed Florian's patches and if you follow what I said in my
>> previous email [1] about pkg-config you
>> should be able to compile the Varnish plugin on your Debian (I did not
>> try on RHEL yet, sorry).
>
> As soon as you wrote about this -lvarnishcompat trick, I was able to build
> the varnish plugin on redhat 5.5 without any trouble. Later I even applied
> the patch to the 4.9 branch and built it successfully. Thanks for figuring
> that out !

You are welcome :)

>
> I understood that the main varnish developer was also a freebsd developer.

Yes Poul-Henning Kamp : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul-Henning_Kamp

> This might explain why strlcpy is used, and the reason of this
> varnishcompat library for linux...
>
> In any case, the plugin seems to work fine. Values are written to RRD files
> every now and then, and I didn't notice any coredumps or dreadful log
> messages.

Excellent.

>
> I'll continue to play around with this plugin until I have graphs of my
> varnish production machines. So I'll let you know of any other issue I come
> across.

Great, thanks a lot. When you have graph could you please send them to us,
or to me directly if you prefer, so I get an idea on how graphs look
like on production boxes.

Thanks in advance.

--
Jérôme