On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 07:41:39PM +0000, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > Therefore, the approach might need to be some combination of the > solutions. E.g. a configure option that allows people to choose the new > behaviour or the old behaviour.
-1, this will double our supported paths for almost no gain and knowing that at least 50% are broken, and still underscores the nature of the problem. because changing the initialization would affect also (in a platform specific way) things like threaded gmond modules and the resources they rely on just as an example. > As we know the new behaviour works on Solaris and Linux with the version of APR that was tested it with, which is also a moving target. > then the package can be built the new way on those > platforms by default. On BSD, users could choose what they want by > setting a configure option. If a user had an updated apr (provided such > update is feasible), they might compile with the new behaviour. again, this is not a BSD specific problem (indeed I suspect that solaris might be affected as well, specially in cases where APR was compiled to use port_getn), because then apr_poll_* has slightly different semantics than poll and therefore could result in platform specific failures that might not be as obvious as it was kqueue for the BSD. the problem that we were trying to solve was just to propagate correctly the status from the gmond daemon to the caller and for a proof of concept in that direction (as suggested before) refer to : http://www.mail-archive.com/ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05390.html Carlo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
