From ad5c0c537a1a204721cbf3de8122e1d32b1ddd32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Helmut Grohne Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:52:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added a README --- tools/munin-plugins-busybox/README | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/munin-plugins-busybox/README diff --git a/tools/munin-plugins-busybox/README b/tools/munin-plugins-busybox/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2945e709 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/munin-plugins-busybox/README @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +What is this? +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +This is a rewrite of commonly used plugins in C as a single binary. The +purpose is reducing resource usage: + * disk space: the binary is smaler than the plugins together + * more diskspace: it has no dependencies on other programs + * less forks: it does not fork internally + * faster startup: it doesn't start perl or shell + * less memory: just a small C program + * less file accesses: one binary for many plugins +This can be useful for machines with restricted resources like embedded +machines. + +What plugins are included? +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +cpu entropy forks fw_packets interrupts load open_files open_inodes +processes swap uptime + +How to use? +~~~~~~~~~~~ +After compiling there will be binary munin-plugins-busybox. You can just +replace symlinks in /etc/munin/plugins/ with symlinks to this binary. + +License? +~~~~~~~~ +(C) 2008 Helmut Grohne +GPLv3 applies to *.c *.h and Makefile + +# vim7:spelllang=en +# vim:textwidth=75