Re: [Ganglia-developers] Automatic storage handling for gmetad's RRDs

2007-12-06 Thread john allspaw
Building in what most people are doing already is a super idea. I vote with also having a periodic sync to disk via cron or whatever, it has saved my ass more times than I can count, with people tripping over cables, loose cables, bad motherboards, etc. -j - Original Message > From: Ma

[Ganglia-developers] Automatic storage handling for gmetad's RRDs

2007-12-06 Thread Matthias Blankenhaus
Howdy ! As discussed on IRC today with Hawson, Bernard et. al. there seem to be a high demand to handle RRD archives in memory out-of-the box from Ganglia. It appears that everyone has his / her own mechanics in place in order to avoid being hit by IO on the gmetad hosts. After tossing severa

Re: [Ganglia-developers] question about titles/aliases for metrics

2007-12-06 Thread Brad Nicholes
>>> On 12/6/2007 at 5:23 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, john allspaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About the part where one can associate 'friendly' titles to metric names: > > Let's say I have two clusters of boxes, (web1 and web2) but they both have > some similar custom gmetrics, say, apac

Re: [Ganglia-developers] metrics descriptor

2007-12-06 Thread Matthias Blankenhaus
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Brad Nicholes wrote: > >>> On 12/6/2007 at 5:22 PM, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthias > Blankenhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Brad Nicholes wrote: > > > >> >>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2007 at 3:48 PM, in message > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mat

Re: [Ganglia-developers] metrics descriptor

2007-12-06 Thread Brad Nicholes
>>> On 12/6/2007 at 5:22 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthias Blankenhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Brad Nicholes wrote: > >> >>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2007 at 3:48 PM, in message >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthias >> Blankenhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hi Brad

[Ganglia-developers] question about titles/aliases for metrics

2007-12-06 Thread john allspaw
About the part where one can associate 'friendly' titles to metric names: Let's say I have two clusters of boxes, (web1 and web2) but they both have some similar custom gmetrics, say, apache_bytes. Would I be able to title the apache_bytes of web1 "FrontEnd Web Bytes" and apache_bytes of web2 "S

Re: [Ganglia-developers] metrics descriptor

2007-12-06 Thread Matthias Blankenhaus
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Brad Nicholes wrote: > >>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2007 at 3:48 PM, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthias > Blankenhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Brad ! > > > > Nice meeting you yesterday :-) > > > > I took a closer look at PCP to see what it uses for the meta level >

Re: [Ganglia-developers] metrics descriptor

2007-12-06 Thread Brad Nicholes
>>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2007 at 3:48 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthias Blankenhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Brad ! > > Nice meeting you yesterday :-) > > I took a closer look at PCP to see what it uses for the meta level > description for every metric. I thought this might be inte