Today, Ryan Sweet wrote forth saying...
>
> Note, the same is true if corrupt data gets propogates (for instance if
> something sends a gmetric input without defining a value.
2002-04-12 Chris Elmquist
* Updated gmetric.c to check if the name of the metric is empty to
prevent the problem of blank metrics showing up in gmonds
> IT seems that the property of each node storing all information about all
> nodes and propogating it also fostes the swift and persistent propogation
> of corrupt data.
>
> What would be good is a switch to gmetric to allow it to tell gmond to
> "flush" everything it knows about a pariticular host or metric and to tell
> all the other gmonds it hears from to do the same.
>
> what do you think?
i've been thinking about adding a timeout value and having a garbage
collector thread in gmond but i haven't taken the time to build it yet. i
haven't had many complaints about it. if it's important to ganglia users,
i'll make sure it gets higher priority.
-matt
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> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, matt massie wrote:
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> > ryan-
> >
> > right now, the only way to do it is..
> >
> > # /etc/rc.d/init.d/gmond stop
> > # sleep 90
> > # /etc/rc.d/init.d/gmond start
> >
> > -matt
> >
> > Today, Ryan Sweet wrote forth saying...
> >
> > >
> > > Is there a way to tell gmond to forget about a dead host (ie, the host is
> > > not coming back, and thus probably shouldn't be reported as dead)?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > -ryan
> > >
> > >
> >
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