I think you meant to send this back to this list. Cheers,
Bernard On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Buccaneer for Hire. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No sir, management nodes will unicast to the local ganglia server. > The others will multicast. So, where the other servers will only have one > line in the gmetad.conf, this one will have two. > > The reason I am trying to make it work this way is that we do not want > gmetads running on compute nodes. > > On the big cluster we us unicast and it has start becoming onerous. > > > --- On Fri, 10/10/08, Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] New Cluster Issue >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: [email protected] >> Date: Friday, October 10, 2008, 2:01 PM >> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Buccaneer for Hire. >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > We have a new cluster-1250 compute nodes, 10,000 cores >> in 3 rows. Each row is a composed of two subnets, Gb >> management and 10Gb for production. >> > >> > We would like to have each gmond multicast in its own >> subnet have a gmetad on each row on a ganglia node. The >> only exception is management nodes which will unicast to a >> different port on Row 3 ganglia node. Once this is in >> place, we will collate all rows into once higher level >> ganglia server. At this point, I should be able to see a >> total row, and then 4 rows of items-rows 1,2,3 and MGT. >> > >> > We would then like to federate that information to our >> global ganglia server exporting the entire cluster as one >> unit. >> >> So these management nodes -- are you expecting them to be >> multicasting >> within their own row and also unicasting with the Row 3 >> ganglia node? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Bernard >> >> P.S. With that many hosts, you are bound to run into the >> I/O issue >> with gmetad/RRD updates. You may be interested in the >> recent work >> that is being done with rrdcached[1]. >> >> [1] >> http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net/rrdcached_integration > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general

