Re: [Ganglia-developers] Wildcard Configuration

2008-08-29 Thread Kostas Georgiou
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:01:43AM -0600, Brad Nicholes wrote: > Thanks Rich. This got me thinking a little about how the same thing > might be done only in a more generic way rather than just > sequentially numbered metrics. I am wondering if, rather than > looping through numbers, we a

Re: [Ganglia-developers] RRAs in gmetad.conf

2008-08-29 Thread Rich Paul
Oddly, I was thinking about something similar to this this afternoon. One thing that occurred to me was to alter rrdtool, adding the ability to support a 'sparse' format, where instead of inferring the time of a row by it's position in the file, as I assume rrdtool normally does, it writes a more

Re: [Ganglia-developers] RRAs in gmetad.conf

2008-08-29 Thread Rick Cobb
I'm still fairly ignorant about the whole rrd interface, but doesn't counter support also require us to have more flexibility in declaring the RRA(s) per RRD? Of course, basic counter support would still count to one instead of many, but if the strategy for determining "counter- ness" is to

Re: [Ganglia-developers] RRAs in gmetad.conf

2008-08-29 Thread Brad Nicholes
>>> On 8/29/2008 at 2:34 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] , <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I notice there is only one set of RRAs defined in gmetad.conf > > We've identified that most of our RRD storage is used by short term data > (10 seconds between consolidated data points). > > How