A long time ago, someone noticed that ganglia's sys_clock metric was basically the same as the gmond_started:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5320970 >From the 2.x sources it appears that this metric was evaluated only once, at startup and then rebroadcast every 20-30 minutes. I still see this metric in the 3.x sources but it doesn't appear to be included when gmond is running, it appears to be left out of the default gmond config. Was this a simple oversight? Has the old problem of it never changing been fixed? ~Jason -- /------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jason A. Smith Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Atlas Computing Facility, Bldg. 510M Phone: (631)344-4226 | | Brookhaven National Lab, P.O. Box 5000 Fax: (631)344-7616 | | Upton, NY 11973-5000 | \------------------------------------------------------------------/