Re: [Ganglia-general] Obtaining Immediate Interval Data From Ganglia

2006-08-10 Thread Seth Graham
Ian Wootten wrote: Hmm, Apologies for the empty reply. Thanks for those suggestions... I'm assuming we're talking kernel modules here, No, we're not. The term 'module' is probably being misapplied here, the stuff being discussed is a module in the sense it extends basic ganglia functionality

Re: [Ganglia-general] Obtaining Immediate Interval Data From Ganglia

2006-08-10 Thread Richard.Grevis
If you do want to do fast polling on the Linux or cygwin gmond, I found some hardwired code in there which effectively limits the polling rate for some metrics no matter what you put in the config files. (Sorry martin, have not raised a bug report yet). Anyway: > the code below is in the cygwin and

Re: [Ganglia-general] Obtaining Immediate Interval Data From Ganglia

2006-08-10 Thread Ian Wootten
I'm actually using a query comprised from a time a request and result event is fired upon "rrdtool xport". I suppose the NaNs will be inevitable due to gmetad write time differences. The problem I face is getting this information into java... I suppose thats more of a rrd problem than ganglia.

Re: [Ganglia-general] Obtaining Immediate Interval Data From Ganglia

2006-08-10 Thread Richard.Grevis
Ian, it is the gmetad process which write the rrd files, not gmond. Are you using "rrdtool fetch" to get the numbers? If you don't specify an end time, rrdtool will choose "now", so it is almost certain you will have some Nan's at the end. What I do is to do a "rrdtool last" first, then use that

Re: [Ganglia-general] Obtaining Immediate Interval Data From Ganglia

2006-08-10 Thread Ian Wootten
Hmm, Apologies for the empty reply. Thanks for those suggestions... I'm assuming we're talking kernel modules here, and not having vast amounts of experience at that I think its a little beyond me. Realistically, the majority of the information captured from the feed will not be needed, only h

Re: [Ganglia-general] Obtaining Immediate Interval Data From Ganglia

2006-08-10 Thread Ian Wootten
Seth Graham wrote: Ben Hartshorne wrote: On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 04:22:41PM +0100, Ian Wootten wrote: I am facing a problem in that I would like short-segment up to date information from ganglia in order to monitor services after invocation. One method I have heard of that achieves something