Re: [Ganglia-developers] Integrating Ganglia with a DB (MySql) ?

2006-02-23 Thread steven wagner
For what it's worth, I wrote a fairly grotesque Nagios external command formatter for the Ganglia Python module. It runs every couple of minutes, parses the gmetad output and jams the result into my Nagios external command file. It also determines metric warning and critical thresholds, which

Re: [Ganglia-developers] state of the tru64 port

2005-11-22 Thread steven wagner
ne support working under 3.0.x. I do remember that getting that much of it to run was a big headache... Anyway, good luck! steven wagner wrote: Hi, I'm still here! (lurking...) I no longer have any Tru64 systems to maintain that port (such as it was), so I can't really address any

Re: [Ganglia-developers] state of the tru64 port

2005-11-22 Thread steven wagner
Hi, I'm still here! (lurking...) I no longer have any Tru64 systems to maintain that port (such as it was), so I can't really address any current build issues. But I can verify that, yes, it did work once. :) Christoph Mertins wrote: Hello, I have some Tru64 boxes here. I can't get rid of

Re: [Ganglia-developers] New/Last 3.0.2 sapshot available

2005-10-18 Thread steven wagner
Did anyone fix the RRDtool referral URL in the documentation and in configure yet? I just noticed that. It's supposed to be rrdtool.org, not rrdtool.com ... Believe it or not, I still have IRIX boxes to deal with (a few lowly O2s), so I can toss this snapshot on 'em this week. BTW, rehi ev

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Re: new snapshot with complete protocol.x for HPUX and Solaris

2005-01-21 Thread steven wagner
I haven't had to build it lately, but back when I was working on the Solaris metrics and pirate dinosaurs ruled the Earth, I had nothing but trouble with the Solaris compiler. I switched to gcc, had a much easier time, and didn't look back. Hopefully this has changed by now, but then again ma

Re: [Ganglia-developers] 2.6.0 test

2004-07-15 Thread steven wagner
On my 7.2 box with 2.96 and 3.3.2 compilers, the configure and build appear to work OK - running the resulting gmond yields: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gmond]$ ./gmond Couldn't create socket The test daemon then exits to shell. On my SuSE 9.1 system (which is somewhat mroe vanilla), it configures, buil

Re: [Ganglia-developers] my "deaf XML port bug" update

2004-07-07 Thread steven wagner
Preston Smith wrote: On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 16:21, steven wagner wrote: Matt Massie wrote: do you mean that if you turn on debugging that gmond doesn't work anymore? Nope, the opposite: If I turn *OFF* debugging, gmond doesn't work anymore. With debugging on, gmond works as expe

Re: [Ganglia-developers] my "deaf XML port bug" update

2004-06-21 Thread steven wagner
Matt Massie wrote: Update: Works fine on a RH9-derivative. Name: glibcRelocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2.3.2 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 27.9.7Build Date: Wed Nov 12 16:19:15 2003 Install D

Re: [Ganglia-developers] my "deaf XML port bug" update

2004-06-21 Thread steven wagner
Matt Massie wrote: do you mean that if you turn on debugging that gmond doesn't work anymore? Nope, the opposite: If I turn *OFF* debugging, gmond doesn't work anymore. With debugging on, gmond works as expected. But the lack of daemonization is a bit of a drag. When built from *this* 2.

[Ganglia-developers] my "deaf XML port bug" update

2004-06-21 Thread steven wagner
A few other things exploded so I've only just had the chance to check this out. Info: I'm not using a config file at this time. This is a Redhat 7.1 uniprocessor P4 but I get the same results on a dual-proc Opteron running the same bastardized RH7.1-derivative. When built from the 2.5.6 ta

Re: [Ganglia-developers] (no subject)

2004-06-07 Thread steven wagner
Matt Massie wrote: i also heard reports from steve wagner about segfaults when you don't run gmond in debug mode. I never specifically receive segfaults and the monitoring core seems to run: ps -aef | grep gmond nobody 15920 1 0 Jun04 ?00:00:00 ./gmond nobody 15921 15920 0

[Ganglia-developers] 2.6.0 gmond only listens with debug != 0?

2004-06-04 Thread steven wagner
Rehi gang! Tossed the latest version of 2.6.0's monitoring core up on one of our shiny new dual Opterons and it apparently only responds if debug_level is set nonzero. Doesn't seem to matter whether it's 1 or 10 or 90. Doesn't seem to matter whether there's a config file present, either.

[Ganglia-developers] Re: [Ganglia-general] Re: Running as non-root on Solaris solved (I think)

2004-01-05 Thread steven wagner
Hmm, I must have been on vacation or something. Regardless, I don't have this code. And for the record, I never said I was happy about having to run gmond as root instead of nobody. :) Adeyemi Adesanya wrote: Hi Christopher. I have not received a response from Steven Wagner so I will

Re: [Ganglia-developers] documenting metrics

2003-11-11 Thread steven wagner
I feel compelled to respond since I was probably the last person to attempt to document metrics... Someone has just won themselves the grand prize, a self-guided tour of the gmond/machines/$platform_name.c file! In this file you'll find out exactly where and how your version of Ganglia compu

Re: [Ganglia-developers] g3 update

2003-09-03 Thread steven wagner
matt massie wrote: steve- the RSS idea is right on track. i didn't make this clear in my email before. you can easily get XML from gmetad to use for a PHP web frontend. say you visited the demo site and browse the contents to find exactly the data set that you wanted .. and the URL was (fo

Re: [Ganglia-developers] gmetad crashing.

2003-09-03 Thread steven wagner
I used to have problems similar to this one. It turned out that a malformed gmetric value was "poisoning" gmetad. I suggest you check the XML output of the data source as soon as gmetad starts reporting this error, and see what's going on at that line in the XML... (sounds like fun, doesn't

Re: [Ganglia-developers] g3 update

2003-09-03 Thread steven wagner
matt massie wrote: Today, Jason A. Smith wrote forth saying... From: Jason A. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: matt massie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Ganglia Developers , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:37:34 -0400 Subject: Re: [Ganglia-developers] g3 update The only question I have

Re: [Ganglia-developers] linux magazine

2003-08-12 Thread steven wagner
matt massie wrote: Today, steven wagner wrote forth saying... Gexec hasn't really had a lot of development time thrown at it lately. the truth is that there is development happening on gexec but it is scattered. i know of a number of groups that have incorporated it into their l

Re: [Ganglia-developers] linux magazine

2003-08-12 Thread steven wagner
Gexec hasn't really had a lot of development time thrown at it lately. Unless I missed a couple e-mails on this list. :) Last I heard it was in an unmaintained but compatible state, with some moldy documentation. Hey, how's Gexec going to fit in to g3? Should we be looking at that more clos

Re: [Ganglia-developers] linux magazine

2003-08-12 Thread steven wagner
matt massie wrote: is anyone in the group a subscriber of linux magazine? i just got a voicemail from a friend who told me ganglia made the front cover. i thought it was a joke but i just checked their web site and it's true. http://www.linux-mag.com/ if you check on the left-hand side..

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Hyperthreading patch for cpu_num on Linux

2003-07-23 Thread steven wagner
Hmmm ... /proc/cpuinfo on my desktop (2.4.3 kernel ... don't start with me!) : processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.20GHz stepping: 4 cpu MHz : 2193.403 cache size : 512 KB fd

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Inconsistancies in Statistics cross-platform

2003-07-16 Thread steven wagner
Not all metrics are supported on all platforms, for a variety of reasons (which typically fall into two categories: "We haven't figured out how to measure that," or, "We don't have the time to implement that."). You think Solaris is bad - look at Tru64. :) Due to the way Ganglia communicat

Re: [Ganglia-developers] New additions to irix.c plus some cosmetics against hpux.c

2003-05-09 Thread steven wagner
irix.c still had a lot of stub code in it when I started working on it, but I can't claim original authorship... Martin Knoblauch wrote: Hi, please review and take the appended patch against irix.c and hpux.c. hpux.c: --- Just some small cosmetics fixes in error messages irix.c: --

Re: [Ganglia-developers] RRD messages/problems after upgrading 2.5.1->2.5.3

2003-05-05 Thread steven wagner
Martin Knoblauch wrote: On Monday 05 May 2003 19:31, Federico Sacerdoti wrote: This is one of those hard-to-anticipate bugs which occur from unintended side effects to the system. To fix it, I believe we need to use the true localtime when updating rrds for which we are not the "authority" o

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Announce: subtree-capable gmetad

2003-05-01 Thread steven wagner
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of steven wagner Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 5:46 PM To: Federico Sacerdoti Cc: Ganglia Subject: Re: [Ganglia-developers] Announce: subtree-capable gmetad Oooh! I haven't played with this yet (I'm examining the diff right n

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Announce: subtree-capable gmetad

2003-04-30 Thread steven wagner
Oooh! I haven't played with this yet (I'm examining the diff right now) ... but I really hope a host-only cluster view is in there. In other words: The summary code looks like it summarizes all numeric metrics for the cluster but doesn't display the individual hosts... I

Re: [Ganglia-developers] g3 xml

2003-04-25 Thread steven wagner
matt massie wrote: i just uploaded another snapshot of ganglia http://matt-massie.com/g3/ganglia-3.0.0.tar.gz i've been working on polishing the xml before i start work on the s-expressions side of things (since sexpressions will just be condensed versions of the xml). the latest snapsh

Re: [Ganglia-developers] HTTP/1.1

2003-04-01 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: Today, Steven Wagner wrote forth saying... ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2616.txt has the RFC 2616 for the HTTP 1.1 protocol (we'll have to use 1.1 since 1.0 doesn't understand persistent client connections.. and why not use the latest version...). We'

Re: [Ganglia-developers] HTTP/1.1

2003-04-01 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2616.txt has the RFC 2616 for the HTTP 1.1 protocol (we'll have to use 1.1 since 1.0 doesn't understand persistent client connections.. and why not use the latest version...). We'll also have to make sure Ganglia is RFC-3514-compliant, as well

Re: [Ganglia-developers] g3 (really long)

2003-04-01 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: Today, Steven Wagner wrote forth saying... Or we can convert the string to: ganglia://meta.rocksclusters.org/san%20diego%20grid/sdsc%20rocks%20grid/meteor?compute-0-2 The question-mark just occurred to me. :) i like the question mark as a delimiter because it looks

Re: [Ganglia-developers] g3 (really long)

2003-04-01 Thread Steven Wagner
the format should also allow collection of summary data ganglia://meta.rocksclusters.org/san diego grid///cpu/number would point to the number of cpus on the entire san diego grid (since it has an empty host tag). since the host tag is empty the "browser" would "know" that the data was not av

Re: [Ganglia-developers] g3 (really long)

2003-04-01 Thread Steven Wagner
Federico Sacerdoti wrote: On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 10:42 AM, Steven Wagner wrote: for example. :) but we'd need to delimit the DNS portion somehow because say... ORG:RocksClusters:Meta:San Diego Grid:SDSC Rocks Grid:Meteor::computer-0-2 doesn't work... only part of

Re: [Ganglia-developers] g3 (really long)

2003-03-31 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: Today, Federico Sacerdoti wrote forth saying... I dont understand. Floats and doubles often will be generated in binary. For example a detailed running time from MPI_Wtime() or a GPS coordinate. No matter how you slice it, storing it in ascii means a conversion. That convers

Re: [Ganglia-developers] g3 (really long)

2003-03-27 Thread Steven Wagner
I can see I'm going to have to drop the microphone mathematics. matt massie wrote: so i'm pretty certain g3 will be a pure xml beast. no more xdr messages on the wire. here's my thinking on this...in no necessary order.. I'm going to shock you by saying I don't like this. I know, you're ask

[Ganglia-developers] Re: [Ganglia-general] gmond --without-kvm?

2003-03-27 Thread Steven Wagner
Preston Smith wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:31:36AM -0500, Lester Vecsey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I compiled gmond on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE and I'm running it with a non-root account.. /dev/mem on the machine isn't accessible from this account, and so theres a segfault on kvm_open when I r

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Problems caused by using gethostbyXXX.

2003-03-20 Thread Steven Wagner
An amazing variety of things are keyed off an /etc/hosts entry in Solaris (including network interface configuration, if memory serves). This man speaks the truth. However, I put it to you, world, that if this has only popped up on Sun boxes, a better solution might be to quietly change solar

[Ganglia-developers] My kingdom for a...

2003-03-14 Thread Steven Wagner
... real logging facility. You know. Specified in the config file. Defaults to "/var/log/gmetad". Spews timestamped error-and-above-level messages. Might help me figure out why my gmetad stopped working about 30 minutes ago, or why it comes right up when I restart it. Yet running it in ful

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Problems with the latest ganglia.

2003-03-14 Thread Steven Wagner
Jason A. Smith wrote: I do agree with you about making sure that the second gmetad has a polling interval set to be the same or greater than the interval in the gmetad that it is getting data from. What is a safe value to use here anyway? This does help, but not eliminate the problem. It looks

Re: [Ganglia-developers] again "gmond invisible to gstat"

2003-03-14 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: john- what do you see when you run % gstat -a you might want to alias gstat to "gstat -a". right now, gstat only shows hosts running "gexec" unless you specify the -a flag. that behavior is very likely to change in the future. sorry for the hassle. How odd - he's n

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Problems with the latest ganglia.

2003-03-14 Thread Steven Wagner
Jason A. Smith wrote: Which cause the now famous gaps in the rrd graphs when looking at the hour resolution. The 2.5.2 version of gmetad does not have a problem getting data from gmetad with the grid tag removed, but 2.5.3 does so I can only assume it must be related to the new timestamp patch.

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Interactive gmetad

2003-03-07 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: steve- i've been thinking very hard about this lately. ganglia was originally just a system for monitoring a single cluster. the xml size wasn't a problem because you where collecting it locally and it wasn't being aggregated across cluster. gmetad was my first stab at b

[Ganglia-developers] Interactive gmetad

2003-03-06 Thread Steven Wagner
Has anyone given any thought (or ink) to this? In other words, a change in gmetad's behavior, possibly governed by a configuration directive or running on a different port, that allows users to run queries against its database? I suggest a well-understood query language (SQL or HTTP spring to

Re: [Ganglia-developers] the gap patch, and Ganglia's relationship with RRDs

2003-03-03 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: steve- great patch! good contribution (although Gap, Inc. might force you to change the name :P) do you have any idea how the RRDs got corrupted? Leading theory on that is that the cron job I was using to copy over RRDs to a backup location wasn't working correctly (pl

[Ganglia-developers] the gap patch, and Ganglia's relationship with RRDs

2003-03-03 Thread Steven Wagner
This patch was made against 2.5.2 - I haven't tested it on the latest CVS version. What you get: * gmetad starts passing a timestamp value down to the individual RRD updating functions. * If a timestamp isn't provided, it generates one using your platform's POSIX-compliant time() function.

[Ganglia-developers] More on my gmetad RRD update stalls

2003-02-28 Thread Steven Wagner
So, after trimming out a few data_source lines from gmetad.conf, I cranked up my new 2.5.2-modified version again to see how long it lasted. And the answer is ... about 45 minutes. (42, actually ... now you know what the question is!) I noticed similar stalling with 2.5.0, so I'm not sold on

Re: [Ganglia-developers] [pun using the word "Gap"]

2003-02-28 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: steve- your idea is right on. i'm actually embarrassed that i didn't think of that before. man... if you only have 128 node cluster w/30 standard metrics.. that means that every 15 seconds you are making 3840 gettimeofday() system calls. ouch! there is also another

[Ganglia-developers] [pun using the word "Gap"]

2003-02-26 Thread Steven Wagner
So lately, as the size of one of my clusters' RRD directory baloons past the third-of-a-gigabyte mark, I've been noticing a dramatic increase in data gaps in some of the graps. I decided to put my money ... er, *development time* where my mouth ... er, *whiny developer ranting* is and modified

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Compiling ganglia v2.5.2 on Solaris 8 (64-bit)

2003-02-25 Thread Steven Wagner
I don't have my notes on the specifics anymore, but the stock prefab gcc is almost certainly NOT going to build 64-bit binaries. What you end up having to do is ... download your favorite gcc core version, and then configure it to build sparcv9 binaries (64-bit sparc). Check the gcc documenta

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Compiling ganglia v2.5.2 on Solaris 8 (64-bit)

2003-02-25 Thread Steven Wagner
Jim Rowan wrote: ... When you do eventually get it built, be aware that some of the metrics that it reports aren't actually collected. You get a flat line. :( Hey everybody! Jim just volunteered to write more Solaris metrics!!! :P Actually, I have some (ugly) code that looks like it wo

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Compiling ganglia v2.5.2 on Solaris 8 (64-bit)

2003-02-25 Thread Steven Wagner
I'm not letting Matt take a bullet with my name on it! :) What support there is in Ganglia for Solaris (sparc, that is) is mostly my fault. All of my development used a 64-bit gcc 3.0.x compiler. The monitoring core is smart enough to realize, once it's executed, that it's using a 32-bit ker

[Ganglia-developers] Re: Inquiry on Ganglia monitoring core.

2003-02-18 Thread Steven Wagner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir: I am a graduate student in Louisiana Tech University currently doing research on Ganglia. I am trying to find out how gangia monitor core works to get the hardware information from the node. I searched the web but can not find information on this field.

[Ganglia-developers] A thought for G3

2003-02-13 Thread Steven Wagner
libmysqld is out, allowing developers to embed a MySQL server in just about anything. Just thought I'd mention that. :)

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Ganglia3 security.

2003-01-30 Thread Steven Wagner
I'd personally like to see the ability to get subsets of gmetad's stored dataset. Remember, I'm at 8 seconds per fricken' page load over here. :) Now the question becomes, where does the authentication take place? In the front-end code, I should think. Unless there's a plan to write a whole

Re: [Ganglia-developers] g3

2003-01-29 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: Today, Steven Wagner wrote forth saying... So, looking at this here example plugin (and writing one of my own, the aforementioned universal uname plugin), I'm wondering if it's part of The Plan for the plugin to determine when to publish its metrics. I no

[Ganglia-developers] g3

2003-01-29 Thread Steven Wagner
So, looking at this here example plugin (and writing one of my own, the aforementioned universal uname plugin), I'm wondering if it's part of The Plan for the plugin to determine when to publish its metrics. I notice that g3_job_t has a reference to a collect function *and* a publish function,

[Ganglia-developers] Re: [Ganglia-general] gmetric question

2003-01-28 Thread Steven Wagner
Joe Griffin wrote: Hi All, Is there any similar information on gmetric? I found a script I would like to use in number 16 of: http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/gmetric/ However, I cannot get gmetric to print any output. For example, I tried: /usr/bin/gmetric --name "Resource_Usage_Rank 2" --valu

Re: [Ganglia-developers] g3 plugin metadata?

2003-01-22 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: steve- you can see that the only metadata i've put in right now is plugin name, author and version (see test-plugin.c ganglia_main()). i welcome any ideas of more metadata that we need. right now, i envision that we will have a service plugin directory (say /var/lib/gan

Re: [Ganglia-developers] couple things...

2003-01-22 Thread Steven Wagner
Leif Nixon wrote: Steven Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: First, the monitoring core RPM (at least on some mirrors ... ?) requires librrd. Ehm, I'm sure I'm missing something here, but in 2.5.1 the monitoring core was split into two RPM:s, ganglia-monitor-core-gmetad and

[Ganglia-developers] g3 plugin metadata?

2003-01-21 Thread Steven Wagner
So while I'm tooling around CVS, I'm reading Matt's latest g3 examples and I start to think about plugins. How is this going to work? Will we have a baseline plugin for each platform (irix_baseline, solaris_baseline), or will that be compiled-in in some form? A version/compiled-on timestamp?

[Ganglia-developers] couple things...

2003-01-21 Thread Steven Wagner
Finally, the Linux cluster's up to 2.5.1. Out of the stone age, into the bronze age! (My scientists are now researching Mathematics...) In the process of upgrading, we noticed a few things. First, the monitoring core RPM (at least on some mirrors ... ?) requires librrd. I'm not sure if the

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Question about Ganglia web front end

2002-12-06 Thread Steven Wagner
Federico Sacerdoti wrote: Since Matt is going to be indisposed for a while due to his new baby, I will take this one. :O!!! Dang, more people I need to send shirts to this month. :P We are definately planning to implement this idea, and I'm glad you see the need for it. Matt's idea, which

Re: [Ganglia-developers] One more question

2002-12-06 Thread Steven Wagner
IMO, if you are *really* super-concerned with data integrity for some sort of alert system, bolting it onto gmetad doesn't seem like the best solution. For starters, gmetad's XML snapshot is the only thing that's current and easily-accessible (IMO). If you want more reliability, have it query

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Question about Ganglia web front end

2002-12-05 Thread Steven Wagner
It's also worth noting that there's no particular reason to avoid developing other front-ends to Ganglia. If you'd rather build one your way using a particular technology or library that better suits your needs, the existing architecture makes it pretty easy for you to do so. Almost as if it

Re: [Ganglia-developers] uninitialized data plus crash info

2002-11-13 Thread Steven Wagner
Matt Massie wrote: wade- thanks for the great feedback. i've update CVS with your suggestions. pkts_in/out and bytes_in/out now initialize variables to zero. barrier_init return values are checked. we run ganglia on dual and quad boxes all the time and have no problems. i think that gangli

Re: [Ganglia-developers] uninitialized data plus crash info

2002-11-13 Thread Steven Wagner
Wade Hampton wrote: G'day, I found some uninitialized data in gmond/machines/linux.c. The functions pkts_in_func, pkts_out_func, bytes_out_func, and bytes_in_func all do not properly initialize bytes_in, etc. double bytes_in, bytes_out, , t =0; Yay! It's MY code at fault! :) Does mo

Re: [Ganglia-developers] The Gap Into Madness

2002-11-12 Thread Steven Wagner
Federico Sacerdoti wrote: On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 06:23 PM, Steven Wagner wrote: [been waiting to spring that one :) ] So it looks like gappy graphs are back on my large cluster data source (which is actually now three or four hosts instead of just the one). I haven't ch

[Ganglia-developers] The Gap Into Madness

2002-11-11 Thread Steven Wagner
[been waiting to spring that one :) ] So it looks like gappy graphs are back on my large cluster data source (which is actually now three or four hosts instead of just the one). I haven't checked gmetad lately but does anyone know if it round-robins the query hosts or is it just building a li

Re: [Ganglia-developers] /usr/sbin/gmond -F option

2002-11-11 Thread Steven Wagner
Lester Vecsey wrote: I hacked in a force_foreground option into gmond 2.5.0, which essentially just insures that the daemon_init() function never gets called.. regardless of the debug level. I use this with D.J. Bernsteins supervise tool, in his daemontools package at http://cr.yp.to/daemontools

Re: [Ganglia-developers] 2.5.1

2002-11-06 Thread Steven Wagner
I noticed the Solaris 2.5.1 monitoring cores weren't running this morning, but I haven't been able to reproduce it since then. And there were a number of factors external to Ganglia going on over the last 36 hours which may have contributed to it. I'll scream bloody murder (or maybe "It's a c

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Cleanup thread on IRIX

2002-11-04 Thread Steven Wagner
:) Matt Massie wrote: steve- just to clarify then.. the garbage collector is working on Tru64? are you sure you didn't grep for "Cleanip" or "Clesnup" or "Cleamup" before? :P -matt On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 14:36, Steven Wagner wrote: Whoops, there we g

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Cleanup thread on IRIX

2002-11-04 Thread Steven Wagner
Whoops, there we go. The code *is* running, apparently. Although I *SWEAR* it wasn't earlier... (otherwise a grep "Cleanup" would have worked... ? ) Steven Wagner wrote: Except the IRIX monitoring core is not configured as deaf *or* mute... And the Solaris one, which *is

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Cleanup thread on IRIX

2002-11-04 Thread Steven Wagner
reate line somewhere outside the "if (! gmond_config.deaf)" test, to see if it starts. Hope this helps, Federico On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 11:10 AM, Steven Wagner wrote: Using a "this-morning" CVS checkout (let's call it 9:45am PDT), I started testing on my various

[Ganglia-developers] Cleanup thread on IRIX

2002-11-04 Thread Steven Wagner
Using a "this-morning" CVS checkout (let's call it 9:45am PDT), I started testing on my various platforms. So far, Solaris is running like a top. However, on that box it's in listen-only mode... I'll try it on one of the fileservers in a bit. IRIX is running except for the cleanup thread. I

Re: [Ganglia-developers] cvs update

2002-11-01 Thread Steven Wagner
I've been really busy this week with other projects, so I haven't had a chance to build and test the CVS snapshot on Tru64, Solaris and IRIX. If anyone else wants to, knock yourselves out. :) Depending on how Monday goes I'll try to upgrade it then. We could always release it as beta... matt

Re: [Ganglia-developers] need spec file for ganglia-webfrontend

2002-10-29 Thread Steven Wagner
Steven A. DuChene wrote: The released files on the ganglia sourceforge project page has the gzipped tarball and i386.rpm but no source rpm. The tarball does not include a spec file so I'm wondering where it is. Also the i386.rpm includes php, jpg, template, and doc text files. Why is this an i38

Re: [Ganglia-developers] State of gexec?

2002-10-24 Thread Steven Wagner
Steven Wagner wrote: matt massie wrote: steve- to get gexec working with 2.5.0... you need to compile the monitor-core with --enable-gexec. the reason gexec thinks there are no hosts up is because no gmond is multicasting that it is available. [insert Sims-style "Uh oh, you

Re: [Ganglia-developers] State of gexec?

2002-10-24 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: steve- to get gexec working with 2.5.0... you need to compile the monitor-core with --enable-gexec. the reason gexec thinks there are no hosts up is because no gmond is multicasting that it is available. [insert Sims-style "Uh oh, you just busted the dishwasher!" sound]

[Ganglia-developers] State of gexec?

2002-10-24 Thread Steven Wagner
Just wondering if anyone'd been devoting any brain time to gexec lately. The source tarball for 0.3.5 appears to be truncated, and 0.3.4 is using the old "localtime - last-reported" method of determining a host's uptime. I started investigating this because, when I pointed gexec at my (admitte

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Re: [Ganglia-general] ganglia and kernel 2.5.30

2002-10-23 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: thanks for the bug report. the development team will take a look at the changes to the 2.5.30 kernel and /proc/stat and be sure to update our code. We now bring you ... KERNEL PATCHES OF INTEREST! From 2.5.18's changelog (forgive the formatting): <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Ganglia-developers] updating gmond.. Re: CPU cycles

2002-10-17 Thread Steven Wagner
Personally, I think gexec could do with a major investment of quality time, and it could use this kind of functionality. I like these ideas, but we don't want to Microsoft Office the monitoring core. The philosophy, in a nutshell, being that the monitoring core should monitor, and the executi

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Mac OS/X port of Ganglia?

2002-10-14 Thread Steven Wagner
Dave Ingram wrote: On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Steven Wagner wrote: I have a G4 tower here on my desk which I *could* use for Jaguar development. However, in my computing environment it doesn't make much sense to pursue it aggressively. A very fair response. :) Unfortunately

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Mac OS/X port of Ganglia?

2002-10-11 Thread Steven Wagner
Dave Ingram wrote: Hello - our company is currently working with Apple to build clusters around their new XServe dual-G4 boxes. We have a cluster of 8 units, running OS X Jaguar (10.2). After looking at Ganglia, I think this would be an invaluable tool for working with this cluster.

Re: [Ganglia-developers] auth_init_credentials() Prototype of Functions in gexec.c

2002-10-11 Thread Steven Wagner
Tingyu(Kevin) Zeng wrote: > hi all, > Now I am reading the source codes of gexec and gexecd, and met some > problems. I can't find the explaination and implementation of some > functions that establish the authentication in gexec.c and gexecd.c . > For example, in gexec.c , i can not f

Re: [Ganglia-developers] article mentions ganglia

2002-10-10 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/458/ just wanted to let you know that ganglia was mention in an article on "Linux Clustering Software" on freshmeat. the author had good things to say about ganglia. -matt That reminds me, did you ever post 2.5.0 to Freshmeat?

Re: [Ganglia-developers] packaging

2002-09-25 Thread Steven Wagner
Ryan Sweet wrote: On 25 Sep 2002, Jason A. Smith wrote: It would probably be nice to have in the future. I am just thinking in terms of configuration and administration of a large cluster. It is things a little more difficult for software installation. Having it in one central config file,

Re: [Ganglia-developers] 2.5.0 experiences

2002-09-25 Thread Steven Wagner
Ryan Sweet wrote: On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Federico Sacerdoti wrote: Just by checking the number of disk interrupts we knew disk I/O was a problem, not to mention the inconsistant-looking graphs. When we put the At the moment disk I/O isn't the problem, though I see how it could be once the re

Re: [Ganglia-developers] 2.5.0 experiences

2002-09-24 Thread Steven Wagner
Federico Sacerdoti wrote: On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 10:49 AM, Steven Wagner wrote: People have cited disk I/O as a bottleneck. I personally doubt this. If it were true, you'd be seeing random gaps whenever RRD updates came thick and fast (i.e. while all threads were updating

Re: [Ganglia-developers] 2.5.0 experiences

2002-09-24 Thread Steven Wagner
I was struggling with gapped output in the weeks leading up to 2.5.0's release. I tried a staggering array of (mostly useless) tweaks. Looks like your Apache rules won't let me view that URL (403), so I'm just gonna guess. People have cited disk I/O as a bottleneck. I personally doubt this.

Re: [Ganglia-developers] 2.5.0 irix compile problems (fwd)

2002-09-23 Thread Steven Wagner
Ryan Sweet wrote: Thanks guys for the great 2.5.0 release! the gmetad and gmond work great on all our linux systems. However, I've got some trouble building for IRIX. I had to add a dummy mtu_func to irix.c in order to get the monitor core to build. Yup, that's the fix. I guess that patch

[Ganglia-developers] Who said geeks don't live active lifestyles?

2002-09-20 Thread Steven Wagner
According to the sourceforge project page (why am I checking the sourceforge project page? .. no reason. :) ), we're in the 94.685th percentile of activity. Or, to put it another way, the Ganglia project is the 507th most active project on Sourceforge. We are just behind the Linux NTF

Re: [Ganglia-developers] gmond command line options gone?

2002-09-20 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: Today, Steven A. DuChene wrote forth saying... So that doesn't really answer my question. How much has the code changed in gmond since there was the command line options? I.E. would it be fairly involved to add the old command line options code (or perhaps just the "-iblah"

Re: [Ganglia-developers] btw

2002-09-19 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: we ARE going to release tomorrow.. come hell or high water or both. (i guess technically they both can't happen at the same time because... well nevermind) OK, *someone* needs to re-read Dante's "Inferno." And then watch The Abyss. ;)

Re: [Ganglia-developers] announcement

2002-09-18 Thread Steven Wagner
Steven A. DuChene wrote: So I looked around on the ganglia project pages on sourceforge but failed to find any stuff labeled as 2.5.0 so I'm guessing this is a preliminary rough draft of the planned announcement, correct? Also I checked out of cvs the current ganglia, monitor-core, and monitor-d

Re: [Ganglia-developers] announcement

2002-09-18 Thread Steven Wagner
proofreadin'... matt massie wrote: o the ganglia meta daemon (gmond) is now written in C and part of the monitoring core distribution and: i thought the ganglia meta daemon was "gmetad" :P o ganglia has been ported to even more platforms: Linux (i386, ia64, sparc, alpha, powerpc, m

[Ganglia-developers] Tuesday morning update

2002-09-17 Thread Steven Wagner
State of the IRIX port: * CPU percentage stuff hasn't improved despite my efforts. I fear there may be a flaw in the way I'm summing counters for all the CPUs. * Auto-detection of network interfaces apparently segfaults. * Memory and load reporting appear to be running properly. * CPU spe

Re: [Ganglia-developers] developers-list FAQ start

2002-09-16 Thread Steven Wagner
Preston Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 06:08:21PM -0700, Federico Sacerdoti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Q. Why do we use libdnet? A. Many things in unix are fairly similar across various OS flavors, whereas something as simple as wanting to know "what are all the network interfaces on

[Ganglia-developers] Dying data collection thread.

2002-09-16 Thread Steven Wagner
So, I come back from a meeting and one of my cluster graphs is empty (the meeting lasted about an hour). The other two continue to be updated. I'm not logging anymore so I don't know exactly what happened, but the data source is still active. I restarted gmetad and it's updating just fine no

Re: [Ganglia-developers] monday release?

2002-09-16 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: Today, Steven Wagner wrote forth saying... Slow down, there, Sparky. You still need to apply my rrd_helpers.c patch to CVS. :) sparky? hehe. That's right, you don't watch Farscape... please send me the patch and a short explanation of what it does.

Re: [Ganglia-developers] monday release?

2002-09-16 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: you are E*V*I*L!! the solaris (5.7 btw) box that i set up here is still running strong after 3 days so i think we are ready for release today! Slow down, there, Sparky. You still need to apply my rrd_helpers.c patch to CVS. :) I am shifting my focus right now to puttin

Re: [Ganglia-developers] monday release?

2002-09-16 Thread Steven Wagner
matt massie wrote: guys- i just got an email from steve saying that solaris looks happy with what we have in CVS now. unless we hear from steve otherwise, i think we should release 2.5.0 on monday of next week. i'll try to get the documentation in order before then.. i know federico has bee

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