Re: [munin-users] node timeout

[Aleksander <ale...@kr...>]

Nicolai Langfeldt wrote:
 > Munin is very specificaly made to run every 5 minutes.  The way the RRD
 > files are set up they will - AFAIK - after interpolation toss away the
 > extraneous data you collect (changing this is on the todo list, but
 > don't hold your breath).

Didn't know that, setting it back to 5. Thanks.

 > 180 seconds works out to three minutes.  It appears that you can tune
 > this by twiddeling /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syn_retries - on Linux.  The
 > BSDs and Solaris will have ways to tune this too.

OK, so setting munin cron back to 5 should fix that too, in case there's 
only on node down. Or is munin checking nodes in parallel?

Thanks for the quick reply!

Alex