Hi, thanks! I will try unicast, as I have some weird behavior of my Ganglia - upon restart everything works, but the whole cluster grows silent over time. Don't know why, but I couldn't get around this by updating ganglia to latest...
Arne On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 23:49 -0800, Bernard Li wrote: > Hi Arne: > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Arne Brutschy <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I am using Ganglia for a cluster of ~70 nodes - single monitor, single, > > flat network. What's the recommended type of operation for this, unicast > > or multicast? What are the (dis)advantages of each mode? > > I would start simple and use the default settings (multicast), it is > fairly easy to set up. > > Network administrators have mentioned that multicast is "chatty" and > causes jitter. If the workload on your cluster is sensitive to that, > you might consider switching to unicast. I am sure Google and the > mail archives is a great source of knowledge regarding these. > > I just added this to the FAQs -- hope this helps. Comments/thoughts > on the subject welcome! > > https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ganglia/wiki/FAQ > > Thanks, > > Bernard -- Arne Brutschy Ph.D. Student Email arne.brutschy(AT)ulb.ac.be IRIDIA CP 194/6 Web iridia.ulb.ac.be/~abrutschy Universite' Libre de Bruxelles Tel +32 2 650 2273 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50 Fax +32 2 650 2715 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium (Fax at IRIDIA secretary) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
