When running DSSTATS, system isn't properly detecting that another is already running

[JorisFRST]

Describe the bug
Dsstats starts to run more and more php processes, until the server goes 100% cpu, overnight it stops responding.
Cacti 1.2.2

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Enable DSStats, wait a few polling cycles

Expected behavior
Not much

Screenshots

[JorisFRST]

Might be related to : #2505

Server is using disk space on a SAN (10k disks)
8547 rrd's, about 11Gb total.

[JorisFRST]

Upgraded to 1.2.3 and same issues Even after disabling and waiting a few poller cycles, the already open php processes don't close. Had to kill manually.

[cigamit]

How often do you run boost updates? Also, there was a change today, but not sure it'll make a difference.

[JorisFRST]

I'll be back in the office tomorrow, i'll do some tests

[cigamit]

@JorisFRST, hey we are getting close to release. Did you try to decrease the boost frequency to something like an hour or so?

[JorisFRST]

Hi, set boost to 1 hour now. I'll see how it behaves

[JorisFRST]

I think the issue was boost was not enabled anymore (I was troubleshooting the issue with the graphs not updating when viewing them) After enabling boost again dsstats is behaving.

[cigamit]

Okay, I'll keep this open as a feature request though. Don't want to crash a system for people who have not read the instructions, which might be missing after all as this is OSS :)

[JorisFRST]

Yes, entirely my fault, disabled something troubleshooting another thing, and it all went tits up.
Would be a nice feature to not be able to enable dsstats without boost.