[collectd] gmond plugin for collectd - part 2

[Sebastian Harl]

Hi Raymond,

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 02:55:29PM -0400, Raymond Flanery wrote:
> If i try to exectute
> 
> collectd -T

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:56:40PM -0400, Raymond Flanery wrote:
> Florian Forster wrote:
> > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 02:55:29PM -0400, Raymond Flanery wrote:
> >> May 21 14:52:54 node250 collectd[23920]: No read-functions are registered.
> >> May 21 14:52:54 node250 collectd[23920]: Exiting normally.
> >> May 21 14:52:54 node250 collectd[23920]: gmond plugin: Stopping receive thread.
> >>
> >> Am I wrong in thinking that the gmond plugin is a read-function?
> >
> > Yes, the gmond plugin doesn't have a receive function, because it gets
> > its data "asynchronously". It starts a new thread which waits for
> > incoming network packages and dispatches them whenever it receives any.
> > There is no "read function" which needs to be called periodically.

> What you say makes sense about the plugin, however the other messages 
> that follow lead me to believe that the gmond plugin ceases to function 
> because of it. This of course would be something for me to worry about 
> since I need it to collect the mcast data.

That's caused by the '-T' command line option, which tells collectd to
call all read callbacks once and then terminate. This is meant to be
used, e.g., to test a configuration for errors. What did you expect that
option to do?

HTH,
Sebastian

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