>>> On 7/9/2009 at 10:03 AM, in message
<e572dbf60907090903p48187096u1729dbe1b95f2...@mail.gmail.com>, Greg Bruno
<greg.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Jesse Becker<becker...@mail.nih.gov> wrote:
>>
>>> also, regarding MAX_G_STRING_SIZE, would it be possible to increase it
>>> in future releases? i've currently set it to 128 in
>>> include/gm_value.h.
>>
>> I don't object, although I'm not the most familiar with this part of the
>> code.  I'm curious:  what metrics are you trying to use that are that long?
> 
> we're sending info about the top CPU intensive processes so we can
> roll them up for a rudimentary 'cluster top' web page. an example
> metric value would be:
> 
>     pid=11790, cmd=dd, user=root, %cpu=0.66, %mem=0.00, size=40,
> data=220, shared=508, vm=63340
> 
> we are also sending info about the queue management system (in our
> case, SGE) and those values are also longer than 32 bytes.
> 

One of the new feature in Ganglia 3.1 is the ability to add extra data to the 
metric definition that is passed on with the metric metadata.  Would anything 
like that help you?

Brad


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