Re: [Ganglia-developers] libmetrics as stand-alone library

2010-03-12 Thread Peter Phaal
It should be possible integrate both approached in the library. Rate calculations are a layer on top of the raw counters. One approach would be to define raw counter functions for each metrics, e.g. pkts_in_count_func(void). You could then re-implement the pks_in_func(void) to make use of the p

Re: [Ganglia-developers] libmetrics as stand-alone library

2010-03-12 Thread Daniel Pocock
Peter Phaal wrote: > We have had time to take a closer look at libmetrics and while it is a useful > reference, there are significant architectural differences between sFlow's > approach to counter polling and Ganglia's. The libmetrics library export > rates rather than counters. An sFlow agent