Committed as r2295 to trunk.

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 08:38, Rafael Xavier de Souza
<rxavi...@br.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jesse,
>
> Here it is.
>
> Thank you so much!
>
> Rafael Xavier de Souza
> Linux Technology Center Software Engineer
> IBM Systems & Technology Group
> rxavi...@br.ibm.com
> MM17 Hortolândia-SP, Brazil
>
> Em 05-05-2010 19:33, Jesse Becker escreveu:
>
> Could you please re-base this patch off of trunk?  Once done, I'll test and 
> commit it.
>
> Thanks for the patch!
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 09:47, Rafael Xavier de Souza <rxavi...@br.ibm.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> This patch fixes CPU system and idle metrics. Ganglia uses float variables 
>> (double) to store the jiffies and the jiffies sums. But, Float numbers have 
>> a problem with precision and Ganglia is getting lost with big ppc64 numbers 
>> on its calculations. This patch changes libmetrics/linux/metrics.c to use 
>> integers (unsined long long) to store the jiffies and jiffies sums and 
>> floats (double) to store the calculated numbers only.
>>
>> Signed off by: Rafael Xavier <rxavi...@br.ibm.com>
>>
>> OBS:
>> 1) This patch has been sniff tested, but not extensively.
>> 2) It fixes it for linux only. The ideal approach would be to make the same 
>> changes for other OSes as well.
>> --
>>
>> Rafael Xavier de Souza
>> Linux Technology Center Software Engineer
>> IBM Systems & Technology Group
>> rxavi...@br.ibm.com
>> MM17 Hortolândia-SP, Brazil
>>
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