Boost may run more often than it should

[bmfmancini]

Hey Guys

Another Boost behavior I notice in 1.2.12 is that boost shows to be running too often

2020/07/02 12:09:42 - SYSTEM BOOST STATS: Time:1.0000 RRDUpdates:0
2020/07/02 11:48:43 - SYSTEM BOOST STATS: Time:420.2600 RRDUpdates:3993445
2020/07/02 11:42:44 - SYSTEM BOOST STATS: Time:1.0000 RRDUpdates:0
2020/07/02 11:22:42 - SYSTEM BOOST STATS: Time:419.0400 RRDUpdates:3992143

I've replicated this on 2 separate systems

Here are my boost settings for the above system

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Boost stats

Last Start Time: 2020-07-02 14:42:41
Last Run Duration: 6 minutes59 seconds (12.00 percent of update frequency)
RRD Updates: 4276352
Peak Poller Memory: 61.48 MBytes
Detailed Runtime Timers: RRDUpdates:4276352 TotalTime:420 get_records:4.78 results_cycle:402.34 rrd_filename_and_template:12.59 rrd_lastupdate:368.34 rrdupdate:13.8 delete:8.5
Max Poller Memory Allowed: 1024 MBytes

[bmfmancini]

Here is a similar result from another system

2020-07-03 09:20:03 - SYSTEM BOOST STATS: Time:0.5700 RRDUpdates:123
2020-07-03 09:19:03 - SYSTEM BOOST STATS: Time:0.5300 RRDUpdates:81
2020-07-03 09:18:04 - SYSTEM BOOST STATS: Time:0.6300 RRDUpdates:152
2020-07-03 09:17:03 - SYSTEM BOOST STATS: Time:0.4900 RRDUpdates:91

[TheWitness]

That is quite odd. Did you have a time-zone change in your database? Cause otherwise, this should not happen.

[bmfmancini]

No timezone changes on the DB side and I see this on a couple of systems big or small

[TheWitness]

Very odd, for each of those systems, you should dump the settings table and send via email along with the cacti.log.

[bmfmancini]

Sorry back to this

I caught this today

Last Start Time: 2020-07-22 13:36:26
Last Run Duration: 1 seconds (0.00 percent of update frequency)
RRD Updates: 0
Peak Poller Memory: 63.01 MBytes
Detailed Runtime Timers: RRDUpdates:3699543 TotalTime:503 get_records:4.09 results_cycle:487.31 rrd_filename_and_template:15.57 rrd_lastupdate:445.17 rrdupdate:18.27 delete:7.68
Max Poller Memory Allowed: 1024 MBytes

So weird

Do you want the full settings table or is just the settings from the gui fine ?

[netniV]

1 second? You have a beast of a machine there 👍

[TheWitness]

I did a little re-write of the timing logic to make it a bit easier for the next guy to read through.