[Ganglia-developers] Re: Scaling Issues? and Memory Size Problems (combined)

2003-12-30 Thread Josh Durham
Thanks for your quick response. So, I've been playing around a bit with the TN thing. Here is something interesting.. Here is a larger sample of the output from gmetad: telnet localhost 8651: ... http://blahblah/ganglia/"; LOCALTIME="1072822698"> ... TN="0" TMAX="20" DMAX="0" LOCATION="uns

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Another problem: memory sizes

2003-12-30 Thread fds
> I have another problem. > > I have 1100 nodes, with 4GB of RAM each. > > 1100 nodes * 4,194,304 kilobytes of RAM = 4,613,734,400 > uint32 max value = 2^32 = 4,294,967,296 This is indeed a problem. There is a hyperlong XDR type that can handle a 64bit type. However, Matt's gangli

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Scaling Issues? Some nodes reporting as Down

2003-12-30 Thread fds
Sweet to hear you are running Ganglia on the G5 cluster. Strange about the TN figure, looks like a signed-unsigned int issue. I'll have a look at the code when I get back from my holiday vacation. Definately send the patches when you get them in order. -Federico > Greetings from Virginia Tech. >

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Another problem: memory sizes

2003-12-30 Thread Matt Massie
josh- i bet most people on this list wish they had a "problem" of having 1100 node with 4 GB of memory each. :) you are right. the memory metrics for ganglia are xdr_long variables and that won't work for you. in future releases of ganglia this will be addressed by allowing you to reduce the d