Hi. I'm swamped at the moment but I'd like to try 2.5.7 ASAP. Does it include UDP unicasts and some of the other improvements you made to 2.5.x ????
---- Yemi > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Matt Massie > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 2:10 PM > To: Ganglia Developers > Subject: [Ganglia-developers] new 3.0.0 snapshot 2.5.7 feedback > > guys- > > have any of you tried the new 2.5.7 snapshot that federico > announced? if i don't hear any screaming from you guys, we're > going to release it sometime at the very end of this week (or > the beginning of next week). > > also > > i just put out a new snapshot of 3.0.0 at > http://matt-massie.com/ganglia/. > > i had to completely rewrite the memory-pool code (in > ./lib/pool.c) to squash the bug. the new pool code is > cleaner as well as missing memory leaks in certain boundary > conditions. i've been running the same test i did before > (where i have clients slam gangliad for data). for about 1/2 > hour and hit it over 250,000 times without any leaks at all. > > over the last few days, valgrind told me that there might be > a leak in the pool functions but there were also many other > suspicious memory areas as well (i wasted time tracking down > all these areas to find they were okay). i ignored the > warnings in part because i wrote a very simple pool test (in > ./tests) that didn't show any problems so i ignored those > messages about the pool code. > > what i learned is that the old memory pool library wouldn't > let you create a subpool, allocate a new structure from the > subpool, and then set an element in the structure to the > subpool. this trick allow a single pool_free of the subpool > to also free the allocated structure. > the new library doesn't have that limitation.... > > sub_pool = pool_new( parent_pool ); > thang = pool_alloc( sub_pool, sizeof( struct thang )); > thang->pool = sub_pool; > /* use the thang until i don't need it anymore * pool_free( > thang->pool ); > /* will free all memory for the thang */ > > this new snapshot also outputs data in valid xhtml. you > might take a look at the xhtml source. i'll be sending out > more on this soon. > > hope you're all enjoying the day of thor. > -matt > > -- > PGP fingerprint 'A7C2 3C2F 8445 AD3C 135E F40B 242A 5984 ACBC 91D3' > > They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little > temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. > --Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 >
