I'm not letting Matt take a bullet with my name on it! :)
What support there is in Ganglia for Solaris (sparc, that is) is mostly my
fault. All of my development used a 64-bit gcc 3.0.x compiler.
The monitoring core is smart enough to realize, once it's executed, that
it's using a 32-bit kernel read call on a 64-bit kernel and kindly informs
you of this before it dumps core, provided that your debug output is on (or
possibly even if it isn't, I'd have to check the code to be sure).
It made more sense to rely on gcc at the time because I thought it would
involve less Makefile voodoo. This was mostly true.
So for the record, I'm not saying it won't compile in other environments -
I've just never done it myself.
Also, note that the metric set in the monitoring core is different between
Solaris and Linux in the 2.x versions (this will be "fixed" in 3.x). So
don't mix and match Solaris and Linux boxes in the same cluster. It's like
crossing the streams - the end result would be very bad.
Welcome to the various lists. :)
Gary Braida wrote:
Hello Matt,
I found your name in the ganglia v2.5.2 documentation as someone close to the
ganglia project with Sun SPARC/Solaris experience. I would like to ask you
a few questions wrt. compiling Ganglia on Solaris 8 (SPARC). I just nicely
joined
the ganglia mailing list (general list) so I may post my questions there as
well. Before
I begin, here is a brief overview of the enviroment I'm working in.
Environment
-----------
- Solaris 8 HW 02/02 (Cluster = Entire Dist + OEM)
- 64 bit kernel
- Forte 6 Update 2 compiler suite
- Compiling system = Sun Sun Fire 6800
- ganglia v2.5.2
Questions
---------
I'm really just looking for general gotchas and tips for compiling ganglia
on Solaris 8; ideally using Sun's Forte Developer compilers. I was able
to successfully compile gmond using gcc v2.95.3 but the gmond binary would
not start. I've narrowed this problem down to the fact that this system is
running a 64-bit kernel and gmond is looking for 32-bit kernel parameters
judging by the gmond (gmond -d5) error - "gmond: /dev/ksyms is not a 32-bit
kernel namelist".
Back to Solaris 8 and Forte compilers and 64-bit compiling and linking. Any
comments and/or suggestions for compiling ganglia on Solaris using a 64-bit
kernel would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Gary...
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