On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:58:05AM +0000, Stu Teasdale wrote: > Hello, > > I've recently taken over as the debian maintainer for ganglia-monitor, > and a user has just a filed a bug with me concerning odd behaviour from > the network traffic monitors on an Opteron based linux server. Every few > hours the network load is recorded as jumping into the hundreds > of Petabytes/s range for a minute or so then dropping back to more > reasonable levels, as well as the packet counts. Apparently when running > in 32 bit mode he sees normal behaviour. I'm working with him to > troubleshoot this atm, but has anyone else seen similar behaviour with > AMD64 hosts? Looks we might have resolved this, the machine in question was resetting it's network interfaces every hour, which was sometimes triggering a wrap round problem with the counter in ganglia.
Stu -- | Stuart Teasdale | Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics | | System Manager | University of Oxford | | "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" |
