Gil, forwarding to the developers list. I believe Matt has been working on truncation issues recently.
Regards Martin --- Gilad Raphaelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:17:41 -0800 > From: Gilad Raphaelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 3.0.3.200602231926 XML being truncated > > Martin, > > I figured I'd contact you directly regarding this issue - I hope > you don't > mind . I've been having issues with gmond on FreeBSD 4.11 relating > to > "chunks of XML being truncated." I have tried the new release > 3.0.3.200602231926 without success - the xml is still truncated > when > attempting to access the data from a remote host. Interestingly, > this is not > the case when trying from the host running gmond. I hope this > email can serve > as some helpful feedback. > > Please let me know if you need any more information. > > Thank you, > > Gil Raphaelli > ----------------------------------------------------- > > This is a correspondence I had with a member of our bsd team: > > Default socket buffer is 64K. It appears that socket is > non-blocking. > That last write is failing (EAGAIN) because the socket buffer is > full. > The application is ignoring that fact and shutting down the socket. > Looks to me like an application bug that just accidentally works > on rhel. > > On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 03:43:25PM -0800, Gilad Raphaelli wrote: > > I'm trying to get ganglia working for a new set of machines and > am running > > into > > an issue where the data being returned from the target node > (running gmond) > > is > > stopping return of data midstream. It appears that very close to > 64K (just > > over?) of data is coming back. > > > > Running an strace on gmond (on the target host) while trying to > retrieve the > > data shows: > > > > 71160 write(10, "<METRIC NAME=\"swap_free\" VAL=\"41"..., 124) = > 124 > > 71160 write(10, "<METRIC NAME=\"bytes_in\" VAL=\"608"..., 129) = > -1 EAGAIN > > (Resource temporarily unavailable) > > 71160 shutdown(10, 0 /* receive */) = 0 > > > > What this looks like from the requester (not the exact same > transaction): > > > > <METRIC NAME="mem_buffers" VAL="204096" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="KB" > TN="119" > > TMAX="180" DMAX="0" SLOPE="both" SOURCE="gmond"/> > > <METRIC NAME="swap_free" VAL="4194136" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="KB" > TN="119" > > TMAX="180" DMAX="0" SLOPE="both" SOURCE="gmond"/> > > Connection closed by foreign host. > > > > A normal transaction closes with a closing tag: </GANGLIA_XML> > > ------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de
