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@@ -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 <helmut@subdivi.de> +GPLv3 applies to *.c *.h and Makefile + +# vim7:spelllang=en +# vim:textwidth=75 |