[Ganglia-general] Ganglia 3.0.3 compilation on AIX 5.2

2006-05-23 Thread Knut Hellebø
Regards, I'm trying to compile Ganglia 3.0.3 on an AIX 5.2 box using the native IBM compiler and have encountered two problems compiling and one fatal when running gmond. Compilation problems: 1. The compilation breaks on the file ./srclib/confuse/src/lexer.c at line 786 which stems from the

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia 3.0.3 compilation on AIX 5.2

2006-05-23 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Hi Knut, there is supposed to be a README.AIX file in the 3.0.3 distribution. This explains a few things. Basically, building with xlc is not supported. There are a few hints on how to do it under 2.) And you absolutely need to build non-shared. That is where most likely your core-dump comes

[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

[Ganglia-general] Red Hat 4

2006-05-23 Thread Kevin Ronson
Has anyone been able to get ganglia to run successfully on Red Hat 4? I can get it to run, but the php web frontend shows no history on the hosts Kevin Ronson Software Engineer Schlumberger Abingdon Technology Centre Lambourn Court, Wyndyke furlong Abingdon OX14 1UJ tel : 01235

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

2006-05-23 Thread Richard.Grevis
John, this may not particularly help you, but on your ganglia server I would try netcating localhost and checking out TN numbers for a start. e.g. nc localhost 8651 | grep 'HOST NAME' and check out TN values, or maybe just wc the above to see if the data is always coming in properly. Do

[Ganglia-general] What's the meaning of Cached memory and Buffered memory

2006-05-23 Thread Zhao, Yongsheng
Hello, When my application is running, the Memory cached is going up all the way to the top. And it does not return when the application is done. Any one know what is the Memory cached exactly, also what is Memory buffered? Thanks. Yongsheng -

Re: [Ganglia-general] What's the meaning of Cached memory and Buffered memory

2006-05-23 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Hi Yongsheng, the meaning of cached/buffered depends on the architecture. If you are on Linux, cached describes the amount of memory that is used for the page cache, which usually means the pages used to speed up IO operations. It will not go down, unless all there is pressure for memory from

RE: [Ganglia-general] What's the meaning of Cached memory and Buffered memory

2006-05-23 Thread Zhao, Yongsheng
Hello, Martin: Thanks for the anwer. We are on Linux. Are there commands or utilities which can reset the cached memory to its original value? Thanks. Yongsheng -Original Message- From: Martin Knoblauch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 5/23/2006 1:11 PM

RE: [Ganglia-general] What's the meaning of Cached memory and Buffered memory

2006-05-23 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Hi Yongsheng, the only sure way to get it down is reboot. Another way mybe to unmount/mount all filesystems (which does not work for / :-) But there is no need to worry about cached. It will go away automatically if an application wants the memory. Oh - you could write an application that

RE: [Ganglia-general] What's the meaning of Cached memory and Buffered memory

2006-05-23 Thread Zhao, Yongsheng
I see. Thanks Martin. Yongsheng -Original Message- From: Martin Knoblauch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 5/23/2006 1:26 PM To: Zhao, Yongsheng; ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Subject:RE: [Ganglia-general] What's the meaning of Cached memory and

Re: [Ganglia-general] What's the meaning of Cached memory and Buffered memory

2006-05-23 Thread Alex Balk
Yongsheng, That's really unnecessary for functional purposes, as the kernel hand out the cached memory when it's required by applications (mallocs). The idea is to utilize as much of the existing memory as possible for purposes such as cache/buffers in order to speed things up - unused memory is

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

2006-05-23 Thread Ian Cunningham
John, I have problems similar to this which I blindly attribute to running my gmetad on a really slow server. If I were you, I would consider looking thru the archives for a tip on using tmpfs to store your rrds. While I have no proof this will fix your problem, my guess is it will. I also

Re: [Ganglia-general] What's the meaning of Cached memory and Buffered memory

2006-05-23 Thread José Miguel Pereira Tavares
On Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:31, Alex Balk wrote: The only way I know of for reclaiming cached memory is to have an application generate lots of mallocs to obtain the memory used for cache and then free() it. I wouldn't call that a smart idea, though. It's possible to configure some