> Now, there is one thing to note -- if the packets are being > sent every second, if one packet it lost, it should be noted > there'll be another one in the next second. That said, > because ganglia may send simple differential packets, if one > gets lost, then the whole results recieved by e.g. the web > interface may drift off the actual value. > (That said, the full value is resent every hour or few hours or so, > IIRC.)
One lost packet can corrupt the data for several hours? This would make it really unusable ... So does ganglia send differential packets? Peter
