David, as far as I remember, the AIX metrics code had an overflow/wrap-around problem prior to 3.0.4. Maybe the fixes are not thorough enough.
The packets/sec are of course less affected. Cheers Martin --- David Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ganglia is reporting that I'm pushing up to 200 Petabytes/s through > my > network. Nobody tell the network admin! > > I'm running Ganglia 3.0.4 with the Power5 add-ons on AIX5.3 > > Bytes in and out statistics generally appear to have the right > values. > However at random times, I get spikes in the petabytes/s range. > > Here's a dump of the bytes_in database. At first, I suspected > perhaps > these coincide with some counters getting reset, but they don't occur > at > regular intervals. > > <!-- 2007-03-27 20:42:00 GMT / 1175028120 --> > <row><v> 1.9268390706e+05 </v></row> > <!-- 2007-03-27 20:48:00 GMT / 1175028480 --> > <row><v> 1.5833184975e+05 </v></row> > <!-- 2007-03-27 20:54:00 GMT / 1175028840 --> > <row><v> 1.6838302753e+05 </v></row> > <!-- 2007-03-27 21:00:00 GMT / 1175029200 --> > <row><v> 1.3766069592e+05 </v></row> > <!-- 2007-03-27 21:06:00 GMT / 1175029560 --> > <row><v> 2.1711888414e+05 </v></row> > <!-- 2007-03-27 21:12:00 GMT / 1175029920 --> > <row><v> 4.9959709273e+16 </v></row> > <!-- 2007-03-27 21:18:00 GMT / 1175030280 --> > <row><v> 1.7401339783e+05 </v></row> > <!-- 2007-03-27 21:24:00 GMT / 1175030640 --> > <row><v> 2.0955720861e+05 </v></row> > <!-- 2007-03-27 21:30:00 GMT / 1175031000 --> > <row><v> 1.9032255300e+05 </v></row> > <!-- 2007-03-27 21:36:00 GMT / 1175031360 --> > <row><v> 1.9162727036e+05 </v></row> > <!-- 2007-03-27 21:42:00 GMT / 1175031720 --> > <row><v> 1.2703790825e+05 </v></row> > > Can anyone shed light on what might be happening? Any pointers for > debugging? > > David Wong > Senior Systems Engineer > Management Dynamics, Inc. > Phone: 201-804-6127 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > 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
