Re: [Ganglia-developers] Protocol Efficiency Ideas

2012-01-26 Thread Bryan Thompson
cluster metrics in gmetad? Jeff, is that what you meant by a major rewrite of gmetad? Thanks, Bryan > -Original Message- > From: Dave Rawks [mailto:d...@pandora.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:47 PM > To: Jeff Buchbinder > Cc: Bryan Thompson; gan

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Protocol Efficiency Ideas

2012-01-26 Thread Bryan Thompson
Dave, I thought that the web UI was driven this way. Or is it gmond providing the XML output for the web UI (rather than gmetad)? Thanks, Bryan > -Original Message- > From: Dave Rawks [mailto:d...@pandora.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:06 PM > To: Bryan T

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Protocol Efficiency Ideas

2012-01-26 Thread Bryan Thompson
Dave, There is undoubtably fat in the XML. However, I think that you would get far more savings by giving the client a means to request which data they are interested in. Right now it sends everything each time, right? It would be nice if you could provide a regex for what you needed. One op

[Ganglia-developers] Announce: ganglia peer for Java

2012-01-23 Thread Bryan Thompson
Hello, I've implemented a peer for ganglia 3.1 in Java (Apache 2.0 license) [1,2,3]. By a peer, I mean that it both reports metrics (as do embedded-ganglia and hadoop-commons) but it also listens to and participates in the ganglia protocol. This means that it is capable of producing load bala