On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 22:01, Jason A. Smith wrote: > Resending email after subscribing to list. :) > ~Jason > > > > -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis -- > -- Err : No filename to use for decode, file stripped. > -- Type: message/rfc822 > -- Desc: Forwarded message - [Ganglia-general] rrdtool patch to
It looks like the list software didn't like my attached email message, I will try again... On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 18:13, Jason A. Smith wrote: > In our experience, ganglia's use of rrdtool to make the metric graphs > will often result in only a single 0 y-axis grid label, especially on > the small graphs. This makes the graph almost useless since there is no > vertical scale information. I looked at the rrdtool source code and > came up with the attached patch, which will guarantee the addition of a > second y-axis grid label, if only one has been added so far and the > current grid line is the last available one where a label can be added, > as it loops through adding all of the grid lines. > > Since we are still using rrdtool 1.0.50 here, this is the only version > of the patch that I have tested, and it seems to work well. I made a > similar patch for version 1.2.12, but it is untested. I tried compiling > the stock 1.2.12 version of rrdtool on a RHEL4 system, but it failed and > I haven't had the time to investigate further. > > I also attached two images from ganglia to illustrate the problem, > showing the same graph before & after my patch. I am sending this email > to the rrdtool developers list to see if they will consider including > it, and also to the ganglia user's list in case any other ganglia users > would like to try it. > > ~Jason -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below -- -- Type: image/gif -- Size: 4k (5003 bytes) -- URL : http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/p/02-graph-before.gif -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below -- -- Type: image/gif -- Size: 4k (5070 bytes) -- URL : http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/p/02-graph-after.gif -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below -- -- Type: text/x-patch -- Size: 1k (1395 bytes) -- URL : http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/p/02-rrdtool-label.patch -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below -- -- Type: text/plain -- Size: 1k (1351 bytes) -- URL : http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/p/02-rrdtool-1.2-label.patch -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-developers WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi