On 7/8/2009 1:24 PM, Bernard Li wrote:
> I just looked at the code, Ganglia determines boottime based on btime
> of /proc/stat.  If it fails to get the value of btime, it sets
> boottime to 0 (which is what you are observing).

I also want to point out that what you're stating here is correct, as 
seen in this output:

<snip>
master:~ # telnet localhost 8651 | grep boottime
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="1228800285" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" 
TN="463" TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="1228800252" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" 
TN="490" TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="1228938492" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" 
TN="268" TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="1228800287" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" 
TN="458" TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="1228800294" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" 
TN="453" TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="1228800308" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" 
TN="434" TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="1228800289" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" 
TN="381" TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="1228800250" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" 
TN="498" TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
Connection closed by foreign host.

...

master3:~ # telnet localhost 8651 |grep boottime
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="0" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" TN="145" 
TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="0" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" TN="171" 
TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="0" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" TN="166" 
TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="0" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" TN="623" 
TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="0" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" TN="162" 
TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="0" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" TN="409" 
TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="0" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" TN="151" 
TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="0" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" TN="272" 
TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="0" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" TN="341" 
TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="0" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" TN="145" 
TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="0" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" TN="353" 
TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="0" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" TN="143" 
TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="0" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" TN="346" 
TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="0" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" TN="140" 
TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="0" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" TN="187" 
TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="0" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" TN="181" 
TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<METRIC NAME="boottime" VAL="0" TYPE="uint32" UNITS="s" TN="185" 
TMAX="1200" DMAX="0" SLOPE="zero" SOURCE="gmond"/>
<snip>

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