X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Frrdtool.1;h=5f82b61f07c558c39f14334e6552723d7d7d136e;hb=fd248121a4d1324289fcb6d0429613c6708cd559;hp=baa71dfe532ec0b842e53e66af7de9f1c30a80a9;hpb=51c3d3fb997c22e1ee828470413f1e84989e1f6c;p=pkg-rrdtool.git diff --git a/doc/rrdtool.1 b/doc/rrdtool.1 index baa71df..5f82b61 100644 --- a/doc/rrdtool.1 +++ b/doc/rrdtool.1 @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "RRDTOOL 1" -.TH RRDTOOL 1 "2008-12-22" "1.3.8" "rrdtool" +.TH RRDTOOL 1 "2009-10-14" "1.4.3" "rrdtool" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l @@ -204,7 +204,10 @@ Get information about an \s-1RRD\s0. Check rrdinfo. Change the size of individual RRAs. This is dangerous! Check rrdresize. .IP "\fBxport\fR" 8 .IX Item "xport" -Export data retrieved from one or several RRDs. Check rrdxport +Export data retrieved from one or several RRDs. Check rrdxport. +.IP "\fBflushcached\fR" 8 +.IX Item "flushcached" +Flush the values for a specific \s-1RRD\s0 file from memory. Check rrdflushcached. .IP "\fBrrdcgi\fR" 8 .IX Item "rrdcgi" This is a standalone tool for producing \s-1RRD\s0 graphs on the fly. Check @@ -216,7 +219,7 @@ rrdcgi. When monitoring the state of a system, it is convenient to have the data available at a constant time interval. Unfortunately, you may not always be able to fetch data at exactly the time you want -to. Therefore \fBRRDtool\fR lets you update the logfile at any time you +to. Therefore \fBRRDtool\fR lets you update the log file at any time you want. It will automatically interpolate the value of the data-source (\fB\s-1DS\s0\fR) at the latest official time-slot (interval) and write this interpolated value to the log. The original value you have supplied is @@ -395,9 +398,16 @@ sockets, tools like netcat, or in a quick interactive test by using .PP \&\fB\s-1NOTE:\s0\fR that there is no authentication with this feature! Do not setup such a port unless you are sure what you are doing. +.SH "RRDCACHED, THE CACHING DAEMON" +.IX Header "RRDCACHED, THE CACHING DAEMON" +For very big setups, updating thousands of \s-1RRD\s0 files often becomes a serious \s-1IO\s0 +problem. If you run into such problems, you might want to take a look at +rrdcached, a caching daemon for RRDtool which may help you lessen the +stress on your disks. .SH "SEE ALSO" .IX Header "SEE ALSO" -rrdcreate, rrdupdate, rrdgraph, rrddump, rrdfetch, rrdtune, rrdlast, rrdxport +rrdcreate, rrdupdate, rrdgraph, rrddump, rrdfetch, rrdtune, rrdlast, rrdxport, +rrdflushcached, rrdcached .SH "BUGS" .IX Header "BUGS" Bugs? Features!