From 759f6d627526e42a02c901d2d2d554b597432605 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Harl Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:04:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] collectd-perl(5): Added note about multi-threading. A new section "BUGS" has been added to the manpage with a short note about Perl and multithreading. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Harl Signed-off-by: Florian Forster --- src/collectd-perl.pod | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/collectd-perl.pod b/src/collectd-perl.pod index 16a985b9..b6537470 100644 --- a/src/collectd-perl.pod +++ b/src/collectd-perl.pod @@ -362,6 +362,13 @@ To register those functions with collectd: See the section "DATA TYPES" above for a complete documentation of the data types used by the read and write functions. +=head1 BUGS + +This plugin does not yet work correctly if collectd uses multiple threads. +Perl does not allow multiple threads to access a single interpreter at the +same time. As a temporary workaround you should use a single read thread only +(see collectd's B configuration option). + =head1 SEE ALSO L, -- 2.11.0