On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:10 PM, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Key phrases: "if asked to do so" and "data it collects". GIGO. I believe you have not even tried... Performance Toolkit only maintains history information for a limited set of system-wide metrics. That's all. And yes, if you can predict up-front which user will be interesting you can enable benchmarking for it. But it is not really fair to tell people afterwards that should have enabled benchmarking. If we can predict problems I would like to prevent them as well, so you would not even need performance monitoring. Duh. > Depends on what you want the data for. Overall trends may be good > enough. YMMV. Even when you charge people just on the CPU usage per virtual machine, you can wait for the moment they come back and want you to justify the charges since they "have not been using that much" So even for something that trivial, you want to be able to come up with process data. And guess what happens when you process data does not match the VM data - pretty weak case to convince them. Rob -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
