Re: [Ganglia-general] Block device I/O bandwidth

2008-03-24 Thread john allspaw
Bernard: We usually just take bits from iostat -x 4 2, yes. :) -j - Original Message From: Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ganglia ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 3:07:37 PM Subject: [Ganglia-general] Block device I/O bandwidth Hi guys: I am

Re: [Ganglia-general] Need a script to remove spikes from network RRDs

2008-02-26 Thread john allspaw
Here is what comes with rrdtool, I've used it with some success... http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/contrib/removespikes.tar.gz -john - Original Message From: Martin Knoblauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ganglia general ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net Sent:

Re: [Ganglia-general] [Ganglia-developers] Invitation to Ganglia Meetup

2008-02-11 Thread john allspaw
What time do the festivities begin on the 28th ? -j - Original Message From: Matt Massie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ganglia Developers [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ganglia People ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, February 4, 2008 7:17:26 PM Subject: [Ganglia-developers] Invitation

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia-to-GroundWork Integration Module Now Available

2007-10-22 Thread john allspaw
Peter: 1 - very cool, congrats. we don't use GroundWork, but I'm sure it'll be helpful to a lot of folks 2 - outside of the main function of that integration, can you consider changing what is listed on your page under How is Ganglia different than Nagios ? just because it's pretty

Re: [Ganglia-general] RRDs in memory

2007-07-11 Thread john allspaw
We do this at Flickr. tmpfs for rrds, and 10 minute rsync to persistant disk, and building the whole thing into the /etc/init.d/gmetad script. No problems, really. We've tuned the 10 minute period a bit (used to do it more often) but other than that, no worries: ramdisk storage for rrds is

[Ganglia-general] Fw: Can there be a swap_used base gmond metric ?

2007-06-27 Thread john allspaw
resending to ganglia-general - Forwarded Message From: john allspaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:30:02 AM Subject: Can there be a swap_used base gmond metric ? It's great to have the purple Memory Swapped in the memory report, but (on linux

[Ganglia-general] Slides from my talk at MySQL Conf mentioning ganglia

2007-04-27 Thread john allspaw
Slides are here: http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/04/27/slides-from-capacity-planning-for-lamp-talk-at-mysql-conf-2007/ A lot of folks at the talk asked about rrd storage, and some folks nodded when I mentioned we store our rrds on ramdisk and then sync them to disk periodically. Also a

Re: [Ganglia-general] A survey of Ganglia users and usage.

2007-04-02 Thread john allspaw
I think this is an excellent idea. I'm giving a talk about capacity planning at the upcoming MySQL Conference, and since we here at Flickr use ganglia extensively, I'll be plugging how great it is. It'd be good to point at how many people use and have modded it. :) -john - Original

Re: [Ganglia-general] Any plans on zooming or graphing granularitychanges to ganglia ?

2006-11-10 Thread john allspaw
tree and make a patch out of it. kind Richard Grevis Infrastructure Architecture Barclays Capital, Canary Wharf, London, E14 4BB *DDI : +44 (0) 20 7773 4915 * richard.grevis -Original Message- From: john allspaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 November 2006 03:03 To: Grevis, Richard

Re: [Ganglia-general] Any plans on zooming or graphing granularitychanges to ganglia ?

2006-11-08 Thread john allspaw
Excellent! So Mr. Massie and/or the ganglia dev team...any thoughts about getting something like this (from/to) into the main build of ganglia ? thanks! john - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];

[Ganglia-general] Any plans on zooming or graphing granularity changes to ganglia ?

2006-11-07 Thread john allspaw
I know that most people I know who use Cacti use it because of the easy way you can zoom (either graphically, with the fancy javascript bounding box feature) or the timescale config that you can set. Ganglia's biggest drawback is the graphing, IMHO. Being able to see beyond 1

Re: [Ganglia-general] how to get machines from different subnetsinto same cluster

2006-09-25 Thread john allspaw
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john allspaw Sent: 23 September 2006 01:06 To: ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] how to get machines from different subnetsinto same cluster Sorry, more info on what I *thought* was the solution: I try running gmetad on www11

[Ganglia-general] how to get machines from different subnets into same cluster

2006-09-22 Thread john allspaw
Hi all - I apologize for what seems to be a commonly-asked question, but to be honest, searching through the mail archives on sourceforge is like getting my molars pulled. :) I have one grid. I have www1-10 servers on one subnet, and they're graphing fine on my gmetad host. I have some

Re: [Ganglia-general] how to get machines from different subnets into same cluster

2006-09-22 Thread john allspaw
groups into two grids. If I turn scalable off, then all I get is www11-15 in the WWW cluster, I assume because it's the last directive ? Not sure. Thoughts ? -john - Original Message From: john allspaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday

[Ganglia-general] very annoying issue with jittery cluster graphs

2006-05-23 Thread john allspaw
Hello there - I'm attaching two graphs from the grid view of my ganglia install, load and memory. The cluster has 24 nodes, and the individual nodes don't drop in or out as the graphs are showing, all of their individual graphs look normal. Anyone have any idea what's going on here ? -john

Re: [Ganglia-general] Disk I/O in the Linux gmond

2006-01-30 Thread john allspaw
I do this, currently. It goes something like this, on linux. Run from cron, once a minute: #!/bin/sh CLIENT=/usr/bin/gmetric /usr/bin/iostat -x 4 2 cciss/c0d0 | grep -v ^$ | tail -4 /tmp/disk-io.tmp UTIL=`grep cciss /tmp/disk-io.tmp | awk '{print $14}'` WRITE=`tail -1 /tmp/disk-io.tmp |

[Ganglia-general] mixing 64bit gmond nodes in a cluster with 32bit nodes

2005-08-12 Thread john allspaw
Hey all - I'm having issues with seeing all of the nodes in a cluster. A1 and A2 are 64bit, I built the gmond from source. B1, B2, and B3 are 32bit, also built from source. all have identical gmond.conf files, with: cluster {   name = databases }