On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Darrel Schneider <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Statistics are supposed to work even if you don't have sampling enabled.
> For example you could turn off sampling and not have a statistic archive
> but could still run a gfsh command that fetches a bunch of stats from the
> running system or use the pulse tool.
>
> However you can leave sampling turned on even if you do not have a
> statistic archive and it is true that our current OSStats (linux, windows,
> solaris) and VMStats are only updated when sampling is enabled.
> If you go with that then you just need to make clear that your sampler will
> only be called if the config property "statistic-sampling-enabled" is true
> and the frequency of calls will be determined by the config property
> "statistic-sample-rate".
>

Interesting. I think it make sense for these stats to be controlled by the
statistic-sampling-enabled property. It looks like that property defaults
to true, and the javadocs say that if you turn it off some of your stats
will display as 0.

-Dan

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