----- Original Message ---- > From: Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: ganglia-developers <ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:33:02 AM > Subject: [Ganglia-developers] Bugzilla Bug 193: Avg Load percentages and > overall cluster utilization. > > Dear all: > Hi Bernard, > http://bugzilla.ganglia.info/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193 > > This patch has not been tested with meta-sources (i.e. gmetad > aggregating gmetad) and thus the average utilization numbers are > incorrect for grid of grids. > thanks for spotting. It just shows that the number of deployment scenarios is just to big for the patch/feature developers. And that we cannot assume that a release will have been completely tested for all scenarios.
> I currently have an incomplete fix, but I need to get consensus as to > what average utilization really means for grid of grids: should > "average utilization" for a grid be load average divided by the number > of cpus for the *entire* meta-grid or just over the grid in question? > > Alternatively, we can rollback this backport and punt it until 3.1.2. > No real strong feelings. > On a related note, I think we should distinguish between a "Grid" and > a "Meta-Grid" (i.e. a grid of grids) in the Front End -- do people > care? > Definitely a good idea, as it seems to be a more and more common case. Cheers Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
