the following proposed patch for stable (3.0) fixes bug 151 in FreeBSD which will result in an invalid metric for proc_total if MAC or BSD security levels are enabled to restrict process visibility as detailed in :
http://bugzilla.ganglia.info/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151 attached original fix committed as r910 Carlo --- Index: libmetrics/freebsd/metrics.c =================================================================== --- libmetrics/freebsd/metrics.c (revision 909) +++ libmetrics/freebsd/metrics.c (revision 910) @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ #include <sys/resource.h> #endif #include <sys/stat.h> +#include <sys/vmmeter.h> #include <vm/vm_param.h> #include <sys/socket.h> @@ -486,16 +487,19 @@ proc_total_func ( void ) { g_val_t val; - size_t len = 0; + struct vmtotal total; + size_t len; - sysctlbyname("kern.proc.all", NULL, &len, NULL, 0); + /* computed every 5 seconds */ + len = sizeof(total); + sysctlbyname("vm.vmtotal", &total, &len, NULL, 0); - val.uint32 = (len / sizeof (struct kinfo_proc)); + val.uint32 = total.t_rq + \ + total.t_dw + total.t_pw + total.t_sl + total.t_sw; return val; } - g_val_t proc_run_func( void ) { ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. 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
