On 5/27/04 8:03 AM, "Martin Knoblauch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi.

If cpu_wio is a percentage does anyone know why some of my Solaris hosts
report a value far exceeding 100? (Ganglia 2.5.5).

----
Yemi

> Hi,
> 
> after receiving overwhelming feedback on my request for discussing the
> addition of cpu_wio as a global metric :-) I just went ahead and did
> it.
> 
> All platforms now report cpu_wio to the data stream. Those platforms
> that do not have the category just report "0".
> 
> Today the following platforms support WIO: HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris and
> Linux-2.6.x.
> 
> The webfrontend does not need to be changed immediatelly, as it will
> just add the WIO numbers to the idle graph (CPU report). This makes
> sense, as the CPU is not doing anything useful in these cycles. In
> pre-2.6 Linux these cycles were accounted in the idle loop.
> 
> I also added two specific metrics to Linux. cpu_intr and cpu_sintr
> count the number of cycles spent on hard/soft interrupts. New in 2.6.x.
> The cycles are also counted in cpu_system, as they were in pre-2.6
> linux. So the CPU-Report graph in the webfrontend will need no
> (immediate) change. HP-UX and IRIX report/calculate similar metrics. I
> have changed the metrics names for HP-UX to be compatible with Linux.
> Just in case we want to make those metrics also global.
> 
> Have Fun
> Martin
> 
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