This one time, at band camp, Steinar H. Gunderson said: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 11:38:02PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote: > > Knowing exactly which plugin did this would be helpful, of course, but I > > doubt it's munin directly at fault. There are several plugins (hddtemp > > comes to mind) that can do funny things to hardware, but if userspace > > kills the kernel, my first finger pointing is at the kernel. > > That sort of depends what it does to the kernel. I understand that it's not > easy to track something like this down, though -- I might defend having the > server freeze once or twice during testing, but not much more.
Agreed - it's not a hard and fast rule, but it should be difficult for userspace to lock the kernel that way. > Is there a good way to install munin-node, having it initialize one and one > plugin slowly while printing out which it tries? Disclaimer: I am not a munin maintainer. That being said, it looks like you can add --debug to the munin-node-configure call in munin-node's postinst to get quite a bit more view into what's happening. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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