[Ganglia-general] Install problem with Suse Linux 8.1: init?

2002-10-17 Thread frank-zimmermann
There is a problem while installing this software under Suse Linux 8.1: At [http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/ganglia_docs/install.html] in section 2.1.1. is described how to install the package from source. Everything works just fine since step 8 (Start up gmond and make sure it is started at

Re: [Ganglia-general] Newbie error

2002-10-17 Thread Steven Wagner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get a lovely bit of code. It seems to be working. Depends on the length and breadth of the code. If it's displaying metrics, then it's working. If it just has the DTD and there's no real data (no CLUSTER or HOST tags), it ain't. Also, did you install it in

Re: [Ganglia-general] CPU cycles

2002-10-17 Thread matt massie
i just checked into CVS what i believe could be a fix to the CPU hogging bug that you've seen in gmond when the cluster is rebooted. i thought it would be easier for you to just use the latest CVS source than to try all the suggestions i gave earlier (of course you can still do them if you

Re: [Ganglia-general] explanation of metrics

2002-10-17 Thread Michael William Knop
A few questions about Mr. Wagner's explanation of gmond's metrics: cpu_user cpu_system cpu_nice cpu_idle cpu_wio cpu_aidle Concerning the Percentage of CPU cycles spent... metrics; is that since boottime or since the last reading? bytes_in bytes_out pkts_in pkts_out Same question for

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

2002-10-17 Thread Lester Vecsey
Perhaps as part of installing gmond it could be recommended to go the extra step to set up rysnc+ssh to distribute gmond, using the ssh-keyinstall script available on the net or preferably an improvement on this particular script that would automate the setup of ssh keys even further. Then

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

2002-10-17 Thread Federico Sacerdoti
There are good tools for achieving this type of software delivery on clusters. Take a look at Rocks (www.rocksclusters.org) or any of the other cluster-building toolkits. I am biased, but I believe an ad-hoc method of distributing software is not the way to go. The problem is much more