Re: [Ganglia-developers] multicpu module: r2116 and other issues

2010-02-16 Thread Brad Nicholes
I'm not sure that this is the kind of response that you are looking for on this issue, but I would tend to agree with your alternative options below. I don't think that it is mandatory for every module to work on every platform. One of the main purposes for modules is to make it easier for met

Re: [Ganglia-developers] multicpu module: r2116 and other issues

2010-02-16 Thread Daniel Pocock
Some further multicpu comments, I've been looking at this discussion about `Irix' mode: http://www.mail-archive.com/ganglia-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04567.html and I feel that there may be some confusion about Irix mode and Solaris mode in top. The top man page says that Irix mode and S

[Ganglia-developers] multicpu module: r2116 and other issues

2010-01-07 Thread Daniel Pocock
I've been contemplating the multicpu module, which currently only works on Linux and Cygwin. Carlo has indicated that promoting it's use (as a consequence of the PCRE patch) may not be ideal for two reasons: a) bugs on the supported platforms (Linux and Cygwin) b) not functional on other pla