Is it possible to modify the period for collecting metrics?

[pysel]

It would be great if it were possible to modify the interval for metrics collection. Afaik, the interval is hardcoded here: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/master/cmd/utils/flags.go#L2004.

This is especially relevant when running geth in docker, when you can't easily modify the source code. is there a particular reason for the choice of 10s interval?

[MariusVanDerWijden]

What would be your use case for modifying the metrics collection interval?
We will discuss this in our next triage would be great to understand your motivation for this!

[pysel]

I am testing the performance of geth on hardware with lower specs than recommended. I need lower intervals to see potential spikes in cpu/mem usage that could otherwise be averaged

[pysel]

@MariusVanDerWijden, do you know if docker image ethereum/client-go is built from this dockerfile: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/v1.13.14/Dockerfile? I tried manually rebuilding the image with shorter metrics collection interval, but the new container built from that image wasn't able to launch

[rjl493456442]

Here are some instructions for building docker image manually.

• Download the source code and apply your own modification on top
• Launch the docker daemon
• Run docker build . -t xxx
• Docker push

[Brindle79]

Should ETH engineer an platform writers be informed of the situation an issue have been raised pull request bug fixes

GitHub right audit report

[MariusVanDerWijden]

Looks like you were able to locally modify it @pysel
Thanks for reporting, I will close this issue for now. Feel free to reopen!