From: Florian Forster Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:51:17 +0000 (+0200) Subject: collectd.conf(5): Updated the “GetSnapshot” entry. X-Git-Tag: collectd-4.9.0~73^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?p=collectd.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=6f4e737d0e88e41e94d422f54509f12cac365be6 collectd.conf(5): Updated the “GetSnapshot” entry. --- diff --git a/src/collectd.conf.pod b/src/collectd.conf.pod index 20002ebc..f7531cd8 100644 --- a/src/collectd.conf.pod +++ b/src/collectd.conf.pod @@ -1777,16 +1777,10 @@ The following options are valid inside all blocks: =over 4 -=item B I - -The host specific interval between data collections is multiplied by this value -for collecting these data. - -Optional - -Type: integer +=item B I -Default: 1 +Collect the respective statistics every I seconds. Defaults to the +host specific setting. =back @@ -2074,7 +2068,18 @@ capacities will be selected anyway. =item B I -B Select volumes from which to collect snapshot information. +Select volumes from which to collect snapshot information. + +Usually, the space used for snapshots is included in the space reported as +"used". If snapshot information is collected as well, the space used for +snapshots is subtracted from the used space. + +To make things even more interesting, it is possible to reserve space to be +used for snapshots. If the space required for snapshots is less than that +reserved space, there is "reserved free" and "reserved used" space in addition +to "free" and "used". If the space required for snapshots exceeds the reserved +space, that part allocated in the normal space is subtracted from the "used" +space again. Repeat this option to specify multiple volumes.