On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 15:17, Jorge Medina<[email protected]> wrote: > a) > > How does gmetad knows the frequency for retrieving information from a > datasource? > For example, if I have 2 metrics, one taken every second and another every > minute, how often does gmetad gets the information from a gmond process? > Does it get all the cluster information every second? or does it retrieve > one metric every second and the other data every minute?
The gmetad polling interval is set in gmetad.conf. There should be a bunch of comments in the top of the file with details, but here's the short version: # Format: # data_source "my cluster" [polling interval] address1:port addreses2:port ... All information is collected gmond at that time. The default polling interval is 15 seconds. > What happen if a metric has expired? For example, there is a metric injected Unsure about this one. -- Jesse Becker GPG Fingerprint -- BD00 7AA4 4483 AFCC 82D0 2720 0083 0931 9A2B 06A2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
