brad- having loadable modules for gmond would be outstanding. one of the reason i moved gmond onto apr was for that very reason.
there is no real reason for gmond to statically linked. it is mostly a historical artifact really. when ganglia was first written (back in 2000), package management was a nightmare. the feedback i got was that statically linking was favorable since it effectively eliminated most library dependencies. package management has come a long way in the last seven years so i think we should make static linking optional. the only other dependencies that ganglia has is to expat and libconfuse. the expat dependency could be easily dropped since apr has all the expat xml code. please let us know how we can help. On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 09:36 -0700, Brad Nicholes wrote: > I am working on adding metric module extensibility to gmond in much the > same way that Apache loads and uses dynamic modules. The fact that APR > already support DSO loading for various platforms, makes the Apache model an > easy fit. While implementing the example metric module, I wondered why APR > is linked statically to gmond rather than dynamically. Is there any specific > reason? If gmond were to load APR dynamically, it would make it much easier > for a metric module to also use APR especially for memory allocation. Also, > once I have extensibility added, is the project interested in committing this > feature back into the SVN repository? > > thanks, > Brad > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Ganglia-developers mailing list > Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers -- matt massie phone: 415.692.0828 x2843 fax: 415.278.0441 http://archrock.com/
