[Ganglia-developers] Re: How to replace apr-whatever with apr-0.9.7

2006-03-03 Thread matt massie
On Mar 2, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Martin Knoblauch wrote: Hi Matt, what would be your advice on how to replace the current apr bits in CVS with a more current set like 0.9.7? do we know how much the file layout has changed in 0.9.7 to what we have now? what happens when you do a diff between t

[Ganglia-developers] Re: hyperthreading & cpu_num patch.

2006-03-03 Thread James Mcininch
I've been delving a little deeper into this and certianly have a saner implementation for both Linux and users of Cygwin. A couple of notes in that regard: 1. The 'ht' flag indicates that the processor has that ability, not that it allows you to turn it on (or that it is turned on). It's not us

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Gmetric message update

2006-03-03 Thread matt massie
so i went ahead and backed out my changes from last night. there are now no hardcoded limits on the sizes of the name, type, units, and value in a gmetric message. if added the following defines in protocol.x #define GANGLIA_MTU 1500 #define UDP_HEADER_SIZE 28 #define GANGLIA_MAX_XDR_MES

RE: [Ganglia-developers] Re: How to replace apr-whatever with apr-0.9.7

2006-03-03 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Bernard, I almost tend to agree. We should modify the configure process to first check for the existence of system-installed versions of both (and expat). Cheers Martin --- Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I vote to just include apr and libconfuse as tarballs if we do not > need to modi

[Ganglia-developers] Re: How to replace apr-whatever with apr-0.9.7

2006-03-03 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Hi Matt, no. 0.9.7 just fixes some bugs that people have been seeing (#84?). The MC support comes with 1.x. I already tried to drop in the latest apr, but with that I get compile errors which I have not followed up. I wanted to make 3.0.3 another minor one again. Martin --- matt massie <[EMAI

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Gmetric message update

2006-03-03 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Matt, As an "outsider" (but as a coder), I've a few thoughts: I'd say you want to be as flexible as possible. You're actual limitation is that the four field lengths must add up to 1456 or less. In my view it's this limit you should be enforcing: the MAX_GMETRIC_XDR_TYPE_LEN of 12 bytes i

RE: [Ganglia-developers] Re: How to replace apr-whatever with apr-0.9.7

2006-03-03 Thread Bernard Li
I vote to just include apr and libconfuse as tarballs if we do not need to modify the source - even if we need to, we can apply patches so it is not necessary to check the tree into CVS. The reason is because right now I cannot do rpmbuild -ta on the ganglia tarball because it is confused with