#1030063 rrdcached: Please install rrdcached.service/socket

Package:
rrdcached
Source:
rrdcached
Description:
data caching daemon for RRDtool
Submitter:
Chris Hofstaedtler
Date:
2025-01-10 05:03:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1030063#5
Date:
2023-01-30 22:29:32 UTC
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To:
Dear rrdtool Maintainers,

the rrdcached package currently ships an init.d script, and relies on
systemd-sysv-generator(8) to integrate with systemd. This integration
glue code might not stay forever.

Upstream helpfully provides an rrdcached.service file (generated from
etc/rrdcached.service.in). Please install it using dh_installsystemd, to
provide for native systemd integration. It might also be useful to
install rrdcached.socket.

I'll note that upstream provides this file since at least 1.5.3.

Thanks,
Chris
#1030063#12
Date:
2025-01-10 04:58:13 UTC
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Additionally, it'll help those of us for whom rrdcache is dying due to eg
OOM (it seems from my bash history that I've been restarting rrdcached
once a month after it gets killed, but I haven't yet gotten around to
debugging whether its memory usage truly is growing in a way indicating a
leak).  systemd ought just respawn it, and I can chuck a lower memory
limit on it and not have to worry about it any more.