Vitaly,

 in this case try to run "gmond" with a debug level higher that 2.
Maybe this sheds some light on it.

 Or, you could add debug statements to the proc_run_func and
proc_total_func code.

 But: first of all show us the output of "cat /proc/loadavg" on both
nodes.

cheers
Martin
--- Vitaly Karasik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It seems like we have different numbers in gmond:
> 
> <HOST NAME="5.5.5.5" IP="5.5.5.5" REPORTED="1168934873" TN="2"
> TMAX="20"
> DMAX="0" LOCATION="unspecified" GMOND_STARTED="1166534354"> 
> ......
> <METRIC NAME="proc_total" VAL="185" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="" TN="229"
> TMAX="950" DMAX="0" SLOPE="both" SOURCE="gmond"/>
> ..............
> <METRIC NAME="proc_run" VAL="0" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="" TN="229"
> TMAX="950" DMAX="0" SLOPE="both" SOURCE="gmond"/>
> 
> 
> <HOST NAME="5.5.5.6" IP="5.5.5.6" REPORTED="1168934871" TN="3"
> TMAX="20"
> DMAX="0" LOCATION="unspecified" GMOND_STARTED="1166534349">
> ....
> <METRIC NAME="proc_run" VAL="15" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="" TN="68"
> TMAX="950" DMAX="0" SLOPE="both" SOURCE="gmond"/>
> ....
> <METRIC NAME="proc_total" VAL="439" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="" TN="68"
> TMAX="950" DMAX="0" SLOPE="both" SOURCE="gmond"/>
> 
> Thanks,
> Vitaly
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Martin Knoblauch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 12:30 PM
> > To: Vitaly Karasik; [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: [Ganglia-general] Two similar linux hosts 
> > provides different metrics
> > 
> > Hi Vitaly,
> > 
> >  where do you see the invalid numbers:
> > 
> > a) in the gmond XML Stream (telnet/nc to the gmond XML port)
> > b) in the XML Stream from gmetad (telnet/nc to the gmetad XML port)
> > c) only in the web-frontend
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Martin
> > --- Vitaly Karasik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > "NON-BUSY" HOST:
> > > # ps axl|wc
> > >      61     862    5865
> > > # uptime
> > >  08:54:55  up 204 days,  2:00,  1 user,  load average: 0.00,
> 0.00, 
> > > 0.00
> > > 
> > > "BUSY" HOST
> > >  ]# ps axl|wc
> > >      62     877    5977
> > >  ]# uptime
> > >  08:55:18  up 31 days, 16:30,  1 user,  load average: 0.04, 
> > 0.01, 0.00
> > >  
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Martin Knoblauch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > > > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:54 AM
> > > > To: Vitaly Karasik; [email protected]
> > > > Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Two similar linux hosts 
> > > > provides different metrics
> > > > 
> > > > Hi Vitaly,
> > > > 
> > > >  what does "ps axl" show on both hosts, as that is basically 
> > > > what gmond looks at? If it is already different there, the 
> > > > "problem" is not ganglia related. (OK, I see you already
> checked
> > > ...)
> > > > 
> > > >  What are the load averages according to "uptime"?
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers
> > > > Martin
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > --- Vitaly Karasik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > >   Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have a weird problem - two linux hosts with similar
> > > configuration 
> > > > > provide very different metrics about  number of running 
> > processes
> > > - 
> > > > > one shows about 2, and second about 20-40 (I speak about 
> > > > concentrated 
> > > > > "load"
> > > > > graph at top right.)
> > > > > proc_total is different too - 171 vs. 350 (BTW,  ps -ef |wc 
> > > > == 61 on 
> > > > > both boxes)
> > > > > 
> > > > > Both machines are RHEL3 kernel 2.4.21-37.ELsmp with
> > > > > ganglia-gmond-3.0.3-1 installed from RPM.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Any ideas?
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Vitaly
> > > > > 
> > > > >  
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