http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=940940


in reply to RRD-Ping getting values on right interval

snipped from some code we run for similar purposes:
my $QUERY_INTERVAL = 60; #edit here to 60 (was 120) while( 1 ) { my $now = time; my $sleep_secs = $QUERY_INTERVAL - ( $now % $QUERY_INTERVAL ); sleep( $sleep_secs ); logmsg( "INFO", "getting counts" ); get_zcounts(); }

decnartne ~ entranced