[Ganglia-developers] Re: [ptools-perfapi] "global" mode counter support (x86/Linux & R10000+/IRIX (& others?))

2002-12-11 Thread Philip J. Mucci
Hi Jack, Bet you thought we ignored this message. ;-) I'm still working my way through pre-supercomputing emails. This was brought up by Nils at the SC PAPI User's Group meeting as well. It has always been my intention to someday support system level counters. PAPI uses the term 'granularity' to

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Red Hat 8.0 + gmetad => *BOOM* (sigsegv)

2002-12-11 Thread Federico Sacerdoti
To clarify, I saw these problems with Gmond not gmeta. On my stock RH8.0 gmeta seems to work fine. Gmond's metric-gathering threads die, and I see only CLUSTER and GANGLIA_XML tags, but no METRICs. However, if I let the service go on long enough, some metrics get through occasionally. They end

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Red Hat 8.0 + gmetad => *BOOM* (sigsegv)

2002-12-11 Thread Federico Sacerdoti
I have seen this too. I tried debugging it for a while, and got pretty much the same backtrace. Unfortunately I was sidetracked with other projects, but this is definately something we need to fix. One question that has been bothering me is this: how do we have machines.c files for two differe

[Ganglia-developers] Red Hat 8.0 + gmetad => *BOOM* (sigsegv)

2002-12-11 Thread Leif Nixon
And here I was, desperately trying to find out why my modified gmetad dumped core on me intermittently, when I finally thought "OK, let's backtrack to the clean 2.5.1 source and see how that behaves". Turned out that too dies with a segfault. And in libc, no less. Grrr. Program received signal S