Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding support for --slope=positive

2007-11-21 Thread Paul Millar
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 15:23:59 Bernard Li wrote: > I see -- well, I guess you just volunteered yourself to work on that bug > :-) Yes, I guess so. Lucky me! :-) Paul. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft D

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding support for --slope=positive

2007-11-21 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Paul: On 11/21/07, Paul Millar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sort of. > > I knew NickG had worked on this issue: we had emailed each other about this > off-list, about how to implement support for counters. My recollection was > he had a partial solution that he'd emailed the list. > > I didn'

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding support for --slope=positive

2007-11-21 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Bernard, On Wednesday 21 November 2007 02:58:52 Bernard Li wrote: > I found this (related) patch in our bugzilla: > > http://bugzilla.ganglia.info/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143 > > Are you aware of this? Sort of. I knew NickG had worked on this issue: we had emailed each other about th

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding support for --slope=positive

2007-11-20 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Paul: I found this (related) patch in our bugzilla: http://bugzilla.ganglia.info/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143 Are you aware of this? Cheers, Bernard On 11/20/07, Paul Millar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 14 November 2007 15:07:38 Paul Millar wrote: > > The attached patc

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding support for --slope=positive

2007-11-20 Thread Bernard Li
The latest snapshot (with a minor fix to gmetad/Makefile.am) is available at the official site: http://www.ganglia.info/snapshots/ Regards, Bernard On 11/20/07, Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Paul: > > On 11/20/07, Paul Millar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The patch is pretty sim

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding support for --slope=positive

2007-11-20 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Paul: On 11/20/07, Paul Millar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The patch is pretty simple. Would people object to it going into the > monitor-core-3.0-beta branch? No objections from me -- but again I currently have no plans to do another 3.0.x release unless the community demands it (or there

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Adding support for --slope=positive

2007-11-20 Thread Paul Millar
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 15:07:38 Paul Millar wrote: > The attached patch is against trunk. Comments are welcome! OK, I took silence to mean "no objections" and have committed this small patch. Hope that's OK. The following bash one-liner should demonstrate the counter idea working: whil

[Ganglia-developers] Adding support for --slope=positive

2007-11-14 Thread Paul Millar
Hi all, The slope attribute, given to gmetric, can be either zero, +ve, -ve or both. "Zero" slope is for constant values, "both" slope is for gauge values (i.e. data should be plotted) and "positive" is for counters. [Aside: do we have any actual use-cases for -ve slope? I couldn't think of