Re: [Ganglia-developers] Load average and Ganglia.

2004-02-13 Thread Federico Sacerdoti
Load average is the standard unix load metric. Its the average number of runnable jobs in the scheduler's run queue taken over a specified time period. This can indeed go above 1 per cpu. It is different than "the number of cycles used for running processes". There is a "load" figure on the summ

RE: [Ganglia-developers] solaris.c patch

2004-02-13 Thread Ganglia Developers
do you have access to CVS? if not, i'll set that up for you. i think you should drop the new solaris.c into CVS. -matt On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 00:48, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > --- "Adesanya, Adeyemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Martin. > > > > I would be happy if you took care of the

Re: [Ganglia-developers] estimating disk usage

2004-02-13 Thread Federico Sacerdoti
We have found that a dual-P3 server running gmetad can handle roughly 1000 hosts before it starts to fail. 1000 hosts here means pure-gmond host data, of course, not picking up summaries of other grids. In fact, we just hit the case where adding an additional (128-node) monitored cluster made

RE: [Ganglia-developers] solaris.c patch

2004-02-13 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- "Adesanya, Adeyemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Martin. > > I would be happy if you took care of the various solaris.c patches. > Yes, that was a nice fix by Robert!! > > > Yemi > OK, "solaris.c" seems to be in my court now :-) I am preparing a version that works with 2.5.7 (re