On Thursday 30 September 2010 22:08:55 Jim Garlick wrote: > On the lustre-discuss subject of "is LMT moribund": > > LMT2 definitely had a burst of activity a few years ago and then dropped > off dramatically as the original developers, some of whom were "borrowed" > from another group, moved on to other things. I've been maintaining it > to a degree in my spare time, but I acknowledge that support has been > somewhat lacking. > > A couple of months ago, I began a serious attempt to address some of the > issues that come up repeatedly on the lmt-discuss mailing list. This > turned into a rewrite of the back end (cerebro and mysql interface) and > ltop utility. The new code will appear in lmt3, to be released sometime in > October. > > Highlights of lmt3: > * New ltop that works directly with cerebro and has an expanded display. > * Auto-configuration of mysql database (lustre config is determied on the > fly) * Improved error handling and logging (configurable) > * New config file > * Code improvements for maintainability > > Since ltop is now written in C/curses and talks directly to cerebro, > the mysql database for storing historical data and the lwatch java client, > which can graph historical data, are optional. > > So in summary, LMT was never abandoned, and although support has been > fairly thin and the code somewhat fragile, there are good prospects for > that improving in the future.
Thanks Jim. Nice summary. /andreas -- Systems Engineer PDC Center for High Performance Computing CSC School of Computer Science and Communication KTH Royal Institute of Technology SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: 087906658 "A satellite, an earring, and a dust bunny are what made America great!" _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
