Re: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself?

2010-09-21 Thread Martin Knoblauch
: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself? For instance, if gmetad and gmond are using a few percent of CPU, would this show up on the CPU usage graph? Or does it ignore itself and only count everything else? Thanks

Re: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself?

2010-09-21 Thread Jim Rowan
On Sep 21, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Stevens, Weston J wrote: Obviously, if Ganglia is using up considerable resources, one would want to know. However, the purpose of Ganglia is to measure the performance of everything else, Ganglia can skew this data. Ideally and naturally, one would like to

Re: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself?

2010-09-21 Thread Jesse Becker
those for overall status). -Original Message- From: Martin Knoblauch [mailto:kn...@knobisoft.de] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 1:53 AM To: Stevens, Weston J; ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself? Hi Weston,  gmond just

Re: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself?

2010-09-21 Thread David Birdsong
Subject: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself? For instance, if gmetad and gmond are using a few percent of CPU, would this show up on the CPU usage graph? Or does it ignore itself and only count everything else?  Thanks

Re: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself?

2010-09-21 Thread Stevens, Weston J
-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself? On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Stevens, Weston J weston.j.stev...@boeing.com wrote: Sure does thanks! I guess dig into the source code of the DSO modules to make it not recognize its own cycles? Bad idea

Re: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself?

2010-09-21 Thread Seth Graham
On Sep 21, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Jesse Becker wrote: You can avoid this by using unicast to specifically designated collector gmonds (then having gmetad poll those for overall status). Or by enabling 'deaf' on machines that you don't want collecting data and are stuck on multicast for whatever

Re: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself?

2010-09-21 Thread Jamie Isaacs
:02:12 -0700 From: Stevens, Weston J weston.j.stev...@boeing.com Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself? To: David Birdsong david.birds...@gmail.com Cc: Martin Knoblauch kn...@knobisoft.de, ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net ganglia-general

[Ganglia-general] Does Ganglia measure itself?

2010-09-20 Thread Stevens, Weston J
For instance, if gmetad and gmond are using a few percent of CPU, would this show up on the CPU usage graph? Or does it ignore itself and only count everything else? Thanks -- Start uncovering the many advantages of