[collectd] Bug#657877: collectd: Does not try to reconnect when rrd daemon dies

[Sebastian Harl]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:40:13AM +0200, Sebastian Harl wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 04:20:14PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> > When collectd logs via rrdcached, and rrdcached is restarted, 
> > collectd spews errors instead of trying to reconnect.
> 
> Thanks for reporting this and sorry for the slow reply :-/
> 
> This issue is related to how the rrdcached client library works. It only
> supports a single connection and caches that in a global variable.
> collectd calls rrdc_connect on each write but the function will simple
> return success if it succeeded previously.
> 
> I think what we'll have to do is
> (a) in collectd, close the connection on error and, thus, trigger an
>     actual reconnect; possibly use exponential back-off

I've got https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/1959 pending for
this.

> (b) improve the RRDtool API ;-)

And https://github.com/oetiker/rrdtool-1.x/pull/742 for this.

Cheers,
Sebastian

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