Hi Alex, do the gmond's themselves report the correct size for each host?
Where do you get the problem? In "gmetad", or in the webfrontend? Those are separate pieces of software. Cheers Martin --- Alex Balk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > I'm running Ganglia on a grid with thousands of hosts, each with at > least 4GB RAM installed. > > Since aggregating the total amount of RAM exceeds 4294967296 (the max > value of uint32), I'm getting incorrect data on the total memory in > the > grid. > > > I've peeked at gmond and gmetad code and adding a uint64 doesn't seem > trivial. > > I've also searched the Net for anyone that's possibly encountered > this > before and came up only with this: > > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=9584&max_rows=25&style=nested&viewmonth=200312 > > > It mentions that Ganglia 3.x should solve the problem. I'm running > 3.0.2, but still experiencing it. I've also failed to find any method > for changing collection of memory metrics from KB to MB, other than > modifying the source code, which I'd rather avoid so as to keep as > close > to the original tree as possible. > > > My questions are: > > 1. Is there really a solution in Ganglia 3.x and if so, what is it? > > 2. If not, are you aware of anyone who's implemented such a solution > or > documented the work needed, so I may carry on from there? > > > Note that the gmetad collectors are running on a SuSE x86_64 machine > and > were compiled with 64bit libs. Ganglia is deployed in a hierarchy and > reporting is done via unicast. In essence, this isolates the problem > to > the gmetads only, as the gmonds report on groups with less than 4TB > RAM > (but it may definitely surface there someday as well). > > > Thanks, > > Alex > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through > log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD > SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Ganglia-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general > > ------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de
