Munin-cron overlap fix

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:58:35 +0000

One solution I tried was to turn up the time between tests from 5 minutes to 10 minutes. This still had generated problems, as munin-cron runs still weren’t done after 10 minutes, and any greater time between polls meant subpar graph granularity.

My final solution was to modify munin’s cron entry to the following:

*/7 * * * *     munin test ( ! "$(pidof /usr/bin/munin-cron)" ) && test -x /usr/bin/munin-cron && nice -19 /usr/bin/munin-cron

I ran a test to see if there’s still a PID active from munin-cron, and if not check to see if the munin-cron executable exists. If it does exist, run a munin-cron job with the nicest setting possible.

Cron on Ramblings from bkero

Munin-cron overlap fix