>>> On 6/25/2008 at 12:13 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Kirk McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a gmetad which probes a number of gmonds, and each gmond has a > number of hosts associated with it. When I scrape the XML from each of > the gmonds probed by gmetad myself, the TN value for each host looks > good (they average well under 10 seconds). However, when I scrape the > XML from gmetad, the TN values for each host are much higher, enough > so that it begins marking many of the hosts as down. I was wondering > what could cause this to happen. >
One possibility is the time difference between the gmond nodes and the gmetad host. Gmetad will try to normalize all of the timestamps based on its own timestamp. If there is a big time difference between a gmond node and the gmetad host, the calculation will be skewed. Brad ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
