[collectd] Illegal attemp to update ...

[Anh K. Huynh]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:36:56 +0200
Florian Forster <octo at collectd.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 05:46:24PM +0700, Anh K. Huynh wrote:
> > I see the following messages from collectd:
> > 
> > > illegal attempt to update using time 1285669914 when last update
> > > time is 1285669915 
> 
> > What's kind of problem?
> 
> somehow a value with the timestamp "1285669914" is submitted to the
> daemon. The daemon checks its internal cache and finds out that the
> last data received for this metric is "1285669915" -- i.e. the
> "new" value is older than the value before that.
> 
> The most common cause for this is that the metric is collected
> twice. Maybe the name isn't unique or maybe you're running two
> instances of collectd on a client machine.

Exactly:  Two instances of collectd were running on my client.

Thank you so much :)

-- 
Anh Ky Huynh