Yesterday, Steven Wagner wrote forth saying... > matt massie wrote: > > i've just checked in changes to the monitoring core. > > You bipedal monkeys never cease to amaze me with your ingenuity!
:) i'm a monkey boy and i laugh while i can in the eighth dimension. > In that case I'll upgrade all my Solaris boxen off of CVS today. Do > these changes break gmetad? I would imagine not since it's parsing > XML via an external module which I'm sure handles a DTD change > gracefully... i'm going to update gmetad soon (today?) to incorporate some of the new enhancements. at the minimum i'll have gmetad skip any metrics with a SLOPE of ZERO. that'll save some serious disk I/O. i haven't tested it but i'm 90%+ certain that gmetad is fine with the new changes (it just will ignore them). speaking of disk I/O. the guys at NPACI Rocks (http://rocks.npaci.edu) thought of a cool trick with gmetad which i thought should be shared. the biggest bottleneck in gmetad is disk I/O (writing to the databases). they are monitoring almost 400 machines across the San Diego campus and straining gmetad to the max (like totally). their solution: create a RAM disk partition for the round-robin databases so that all data is in memory. it works great. > Preston has been quiet so I am assuming that all is well with CVS on his > platforms... yeh i think so. i'm sure preston wouldn't hesitate to let us know otherwise. the BSD AIX universes still happy? > > time for a game of delta force 3 > > No Army: Operations? You gotta try the Bridge level with the M24 > sniper rifle on defense. A really good sniper can rack up almost all > the kills against a really bad assault team (I got 7 kills one round > ... against an enemy team of 10!). Then again, so can a good > grenadier - between a precise M203 hit and airbursting frag grenades > over the enemy's head, you can make a lot of people really mad really > fast. :P :) we must get a large scale ganglia developers game going then. the guys in my office (there are 6 of us) play delta force often around 5:30-6pm. we have one guy who is an amazing sniper... i cringe when i hear his M82A1 (although since it's supersonic.. you sometimes hear it AFTER it's too late). there is also a guy in our group who likes to play the grenadier and run around with an MM-1 rapid-firing grenades all over the place. i personally chose the gunner specialty and carry the M249 SAW or FN MAG (although i really like the accuracy of the SAW and it still cuts through walls just fine). we don't have Army: Operations. who makes that? we'll have to look at it. -matt
