From: Florian Forster <octo@leeloo.lan.home.verplant.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:38:01 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: collectd.conf(5): Document the new `RandomTimeout' option.
X-Git-Tag: collectd-4.8.0~40^2
X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2bca2a511c1636bf448112d081d115ebc01b5ed4;p=collectd.git

collectd.conf(5): Document the new `RandomTimeout' option.
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diff --git a/src/collectd.conf.pod b/src/collectd.conf.pod
index 64837553..7ab21724 100644
--- a/src/collectd.conf.pod
+++ b/src/collectd.conf.pod
@@ -2934,6 +2934,14 @@ updates per second, writing all values to disk will take approximately
 "collection3" you'll end up with a responsive and fast system, up to date
 graphs and basically a "backup" of your values every hour.
 
+=item B<RandomTimeout> I<Seconds>
+
+When set, the actual timeout for each value is chosen randomly between
+I<CacheTimeout>-I<RandomTimeout> and I<CacheTimeout>+I<RandomTimeout>. The
+intention is to avoid high load situations that appear when many values timeout
+at the same time. This is especially a problem shortly after the daemon starts,
+because all values were added to the internal cache at roughly the same time.
+
 =back
 
 =head2 Plugin C<sensors>