[Freeipmi-devel] Re: Software Deliverables

[Robin Goldstone]

AB,

Please confirm that I should only need to initialize the SDR cache one time 
when the node is first installed.  I was planning to re-initialize the cache 
every time the node boots e.g. in rc.local.  I was under the impression that 
if new hardware was installed, or even replacement of an existing piece of 
hardware like a fan or power supply, that the SDR data might change and thus 
the cache would be invalidated.  Is that not a possibility I need to be 
concerned with?

-Robin

On Wednesday 17 March 2004 03:38 am, Anand Babu wrote:
> ,----[ Joseph Ruscio <address@hidden> ]
>
> | I know there is a valid reason for this delay. I'm assuming its
> | because of the KCS controller is slow
>
> `----
> Yes, your reason is valid.
> KCS controller is byte oriented and slow. To pull all 134 SDR records,
> it takes around 43 secs. We can't bring it down further.
>
> Creation of "SDR Repository Cache" can be handled once during the
> installation time. (Just running "sensors" in the post-inst script
> with output redirected to "/dev/null" should initialize the cache).