On Sep 21, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Stevens, Weston J wrote: > Obviously, if Ganglia is using up considerable resources, one would > want to know. However, the purpose of Ganglia is to measure the > performance of everything else, Ganglia can skew this data. Ideally > and naturally, one would like to measure performance without using > up any resources in doing so.
I'd say that the purpose of Ganglia is to measure the true situation on the target, as best as possible. That would include whatever load it happens to add. Ganglia skews the load to some extent, but that's reality. It's not skewing the data. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list Ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
