On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 05:32:08PM -0600, Brad Nicholes wrote: > >>> On 4/4/2008 at 8:15 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carlo > Marcelo Arenas Belon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:56:23AM -0600, Brad Nicholes wrote: > >> >>> On 4/3/2008 at 4:30 PM, in message > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bernard Li" > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > I noticed that since April 1st (that would be ~ r1185), I have been > >> > getting the following message in my /var/log/messages: > >> > > >> > Apr 1 16:49:14 build01 /usr/sbin/gmetad[19901]: RRD_update > >> > (/var/lib/ganglia/rrds/Build Servers/__SummaryInfo__/machine_t > >> > ype.rrd): conversion of '^A' to float not complete: tail '^A' > >> > > >> > (some times I get ^B instead of ^A) > >> > > >> > Any ideas? > > > > an incorrect conversion from string to float > > > >> I'm not sure why that is happening, but it brings up a bigger question. > >> Why > > are we writing summaries for a string type? > > > > because the code was modified in r1105 to do that. which was if I remember > > correctly some code I explicitally didn't want to commit because it was > > incorrect and needed more work. > > > > AFAICT, r1105 just exposed a problem that has been there all the time.
the exposed problem was actually introduced in r1185, when the summary hash was pushed a metric update for the extra elements not checking if it was part of it Fix Committed revision 1216 > My real question is if there was a reason why write_root_summary() just created an RRD for all metrics regardless of the data type. because all metrics in the summary hash were numeric as explained by the comment in gmetad.c:192 Carlo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Register now and save $200. Hurry, offer ends at 11:59 p.m., Monday, April 7! Use priority code J8TLD2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
