Getting munin to run every 10 minutes

Munin is kind of inefficient and on my P4 2Ghz, it running every 5 minutes is too often, and the munin processes keep dying because locks already exist. You can’t increase the munin-cron script to 10 minute intervals, because then rrdtool will generate gaps.

The munin-cron script is nothing but a wrapper for munin-graph, munin-html and munin-update. I made my own wrappers, which I then run with separate cronjobs:

# cat /usr/local/bin/munin-graph 
#!/bin/bash
 
# file copied from /usr/bin/munin-cron and adjusted.
 
# This used to test if the executables were installed.  But that is
# perfectly redundant and supresses errors that the admin should see.
 
#/usr/share/munin/munin-update $@ || exit 1
 
# The result of munin-limits is needed by munin-html but not by
# munin-graph.  So run it in the background now, it will be done
# before munin-graph.
 
# When runnin update at */5 and graph at */10, munin-update and munin-graph
# will be started at the same time, and this sleep it to prevent a
# race-condition on the update-running file.
sleep 5
 
while [ -f "/var/run/munin/update-running" ]; do
        sleep 1
done
 
/usr/share/munin/munin-limits $@ &
 
nice /usr/share/munin/munin-graph --cron $@ 2>&1 | fgrep -v "*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice"
 
wait
 
nice /usr/share/munin/munin-html $@ || exit 1

# cat /usr/local/bin/munin-update-data
#!/bin/bash
 
# file copied from /usr/bin/munin-cron and adjusted.
 
# This used to test if the executables were installed.  But that is
# perfectly redundant and supresses errors that the admin should see.
 
runfile="/var/run/munin/update-running"
touch "$runfile"
 
/usr/share/munin/munin-update $@ || exit 1
 
rm "$runfile"
 
# The result of munin-limits is needed by munin-html but not by
# munin-graph.  So run it in the background now, it will be done
# before munin-graph.
 
#/usr/share/munin/munin-limits $@ &
 
#nice /usr/share/munin/munin-graph --cron $@ 2>&1 | fgrep -v "*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice"
 
#wait
 
#nice /usr/share/munin/munin-html $@ || exit 1 

# cat /etc/cron.d/munin
#
# cron-jobs for munin
#
 
MAILTO=root
 
#*/5 * * * *     munin if [ -x /usr/bin/munin-cron ]; then /usr/bin/munin-cron; fi
*/5 * * * *     munin if [ -x /usr/local/bin/munin-update-data ]; then /usr/local/bin/munin-update-data; fi
*/10 * * * *    munin if [ -x /usr/local/bin/munin-graph ]; then /usr/local/bin/munin-graph; fi
14 10 * * *     munin if [ -x /usr/share/munin/munin-limits ]; then /usr/share/munin/munin-limits --force --contact nagios --contact old-nagios; fi