>>> On 9/17/2008 at 8:23 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] , <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If you run gmond with -d 10, the debug output will show you >> everything that gmond sent as well as everything that gmond >> received. If you capture that output and then do some >> analysis on it, is gmond sending all of the metrics? If so, >> then is it also receiving back everything that it send? If > > > > tcpdump shows me that the packets are being transmitted on the loopback > interface > > In the debug output, I see messages like this for all 400 metrics: > > metric 'test0000399' being collected now > metric 'test0000399' has value_threshold 1.000000 > sending metadata for metric: test0000399 > sent message 'test0000399' of length 76 with 0 errors > > > However, I see this message for some metrics and not others: > > ***Allocating metadata packet for host--localhost.localdomain-- and > metric --test0000029-- **** > saving metadata for metric: test0000029 host: localhost.localdomain > ***Allocating value packet for host--localhost.localdomain-- and metric > --test0000029-- **** > > Within 1-2 seconds of starting gmond, tcpdump reports 943 packets sent > on the loopback interface - that appears to include 400 metadata packets > and 400 data packets for my test metric > It is actually the value packets that I am more interested in rather than the metadata packets. You will probably have to let gmond run for a few minutes to allow it to sync up on all of the metadata packets and just start processing value packets. At that point you should see x number of value packets sent and x number of value packets received. Brad ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
