Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding extensibility to gmond...

2007-03-02 Thread Richard Mohr
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 12:17 -0700, Brad Nicholes wrote: > It would depend on whether you wanted to repeat the path info > throughout the .conf file. I would still suggest that you have a > modules{} section for loading the metrics modules and then use the > metric{} sections for defining how

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding extensibility to gmond...

2007-03-02 Thread Brad Nicholes
>>> On 3/2/2007 at 10:13 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. Maybe I should have looked at Brad's patch before putting in my > $0.02 :-) > > It seems like his patch is already doing much of what I suggested. But > personally, I think we should go ev

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding extensibility to gmond...

2007-03-02 Thread Brad Nicholes
>>> On 3/2/2007 at 8:40 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brad, > > thanks for providing this functionality. As others already commented, > this is urgently needed. > > Now we have the question how to move on. It seems to me that we are on > the w

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [PATCH] linux/metrics.c - Remove fsusage.c

2007-03-02 Thread matt massie
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 07:33 -0800, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > Hi Matt, > > what was it doing in the first place? Seems we are not really missing > it. that code was introduced by federico sacerdoti when he added the disk_* metrics. when i just read the fsusage code i realized that it is really a

[Ganglia-developers] Getting code into Ganglia

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Millar
Hi all, Last December, I asked about getting a bug-fix into Ganglia (bug #120, see [1]). Through the following discussion, I had thought the consensus was that the code was basically OK and was ready to go in. There was a few concerns, that the patch: might cause confusion on certain p

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [PATCH] linux/metrics.c - Remove fsusage.c

2007-03-02 Thread Brad Nicholes
>>> On 3/2/2007 at 7:10 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, matt massie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i've just committed brad's libmetric update to subversion. very nice > patch indeed... very simple and removes a licensing conflict. > > i remember this conflict being part of earlier threads on t

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Bugzilla email account

2007-03-02 Thread matt massie
awesome. welcome aboard again. :) On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:29 -0800, Bernard Li wrote: > Hi Matt: > > After I reset the password, I'm good :-) > > Thanks! > > Bernard > > On 3/2/07, matt massie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i updated your old account to your new email... > > > > On Wed, 200

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Bugzilla email account

2007-03-02 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Matt: After I reset the password, I'm good :-) Thanks! Bernard On 3/2/07, matt massie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i updated your old account to your new email... On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 22:36 -0800, Bernard Li wrote: > Guys: > > Is it possible to change my account email address for bugzilla?

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding extensibility to gmond...

2007-03-02 Thread Richard Mohr
OK. Maybe I should have looked at Brad's patch before putting in my $0.02 :-) It seems like his patch is already doing much of what I suggested. But personally, I think we should go even farther and make every metric a dynamically loaded metric. These types of lines should be completely banish

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding extensibility to gmond...

2007-03-02 Thread Richard Mohr
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 07:40 -0800, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > My vision for the future would include a completely configurable set > of core metrics for "gmond". But in a way where different gmonds still > can work together in some meaningfull way. > > For example we have to rework the metrics a

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding extensibility to gmond...

2007-03-02 Thread Alexander.Robinson
Martin/et.al., First, apologies if my commments to follow seem to come from left field , or are incoherent, but I am a systems/infrastructure manager and not a developer. But your discussions below sparked a connection to me between some of the things Gmond is doing and what one of the applicat

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding extensibility to gmond...

2007-03-02 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Brad, thanks for providing this functionality. As others already commented, this is urgently needed. Now we have the question how to move on. It seems to me that we are on the way of opening 3.1 or 4.0. My vision for the future would include a completely configurable set of core metrics for "

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [PATCH] linux/metrics.c - Remove fsusage.c

2007-03-02 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Hi Matt, what was it doing in the first place? Seems we are not really missing it. Cheers Martin --- matt massie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i've just committed brad's libmetric update to subversion. very nice > patch indeed... very simple and removes a licensing conflict. > > i remember th

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [PATCH] linux/metrics.c - Remove fsusage.c

2007-03-02 Thread Stu Teasdale
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 06:10:43AM -0800, matt massie wrote: > i've just committed brad's libmetric update to subversion. very nice > patch indeed... very simple and removes a licensing conflict. > > i remember this conflict being part of earlier threads on this list. > was it Stuart Teasdale who

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [PATCH] linux/metrics.c - Remove fsusage.c

2007-03-02 Thread matt massie
i've just committed brad's libmetric update to subversion. very nice patch indeed... very simple and removes a licensing conflict. i remember this conflict being part of earlier threads on this list. was it Stuart Teasdale who was monitoring ganglia for debian repositories? thanks brian for this

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Bugzilla email account

2007-03-02 Thread matt massie
i updated your old account to your new email... On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 22:36 -0800, Bernard Li wrote: > Guys: > > Is it possible to change my account email address for bugzilla? If an > admin can do this, can you please change my old account @bcgsc.ca to > this one? > > Thanks, > > Bernard > >

Re: [Ganglia-developers] bootstrap broken?

2007-03-02 Thread Bernard Li
Okay, I was able to run ./bootstrap on my Debian box after I install libtool. I definitely cannot run it on RHEL4u4 though... Cheers, Bernard On 3/1/07, Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It has been a while since I last did a build from SVN, but currently I am unable to. I got a whole bu