Re: [Ganglia-developers] send_metadata_interval

2011-01-11 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 1/10/2011 at 4:52 PM, in message aanlktinbmlmnbcti3q-sjuocmp=+igaggo0trj3gf...@mail.gmail.com, Bernard Li bern...@vanhpc.org wrote: Hi Brad: Thanks for your reply. On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Brad Nicholes bnicho...@novell.com wrote: The purpose of setting the

Re: [Ganglia-developers] send_metadata_interval

2011-01-11 Thread Vladimir Vuksan
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:52:50 -0800, Bernard Li bern...@vanhpc.org wrote: I have a perhaps naive question. It sounds like send_metadata_interval is only relevant to unicast configuration, so why is multicast affected as well? How difficult of a code change would it be if we make the

Re: [Ganglia-developers] send_metadata_interval

2011-01-11 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Brad: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Brad Nicholes bnicho...@novell.com wrote: Actually I think this is a good idea.  In my experience, unicast seems to be more the norm rather than the exception now.  If we were to make unicast the default, then that would make the suggestion above

Re: [Ganglia-developers] send_metadata_interval

2011-01-10 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 1/7/2011 at 9:10 PM, in message aanlktikfk_hy2v_zvkb_pra6vxmeqnv3nw3iokhxx...@mail.gmail.com, Jesse Becker haw...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 15:25, Bernard Li bern...@vanhpc.org wrote: Hi all: Since the release of Ganglia 3.1, we have introduced the new configuration option

Re: [Ganglia-developers] send_metadata_interval

2011-01-10 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Brad: Thanks for your reply. On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Brad Nicholes bnicho...@novell.com wrote: The purpose of setting the send_metadata_interval to 0 by default was to avoid unnecessary traffic for our default configuration of multicast.   Setting the directive to anything other

Re: [Ganglia-developers] send_metadata_interval

2011-01-08 Thread Vladimir Vuksan
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 23:10:06 -0500, Jesse Becker haw...@gmail.com wrote: I think that it's fine to set this to a non-zero value, but I wonder if 30 seconds is too high. I did a quick set of checking on the actual packets that are sent--and specifically the metadata packets. I haven't been

Re: [Ganglia-developers] send_metadata_interval

2011-01-07 Thread Jesse Becker
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 15:25, Bernard Li bern...@vanhpc.org wrote: Hi all: Since the release of Ganglia 3.1, we have introduced the new configuration option send_metadata_interval in gmond.conf.  This is set to 0 by default and the user must set this to a sane number if using unicast