Hi Weston,

 "gmond" just looks at the low-level counters provided by the OS and has no 
awareness about its own resource usage. So, it will collect cpu-usage including 
its own cycles.

Does this answer your question?

 
Cheers
Martin
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> From: "Stevens, Weston J" <weston.j.stev...@boeing.com>
> To: "ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net" 
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> Sent: Mon, September 20, 2010 8:20:21 PM
> Subject: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself?
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> For instance, if gmetad and gmond are using a few percent of CPU, would this  
>show up on the CPU usage graph? Or does it ignore itself and only count  
>everything else?  Thanks
> 
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