I have not had success with Ganglia, due to the same issue I think as you've encountered.
- Connor On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Christian Schroer <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi, > > i have the same problem here, using Flume-NG 1.2 from CDH4.1.2. > I deleted all related RRDs, gmetad recreates them and i see those errors > again. > > Disk space, inodes, ... are fine. All RRDs not related to Flume-NG are > fine, too. > > These errors result in a gmetad crash after while (more metrics => earlier > crash). If I disable ganglia support gmetad runs without any problem. > > Regards > Christian > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Alexander Alten-Lorenz [mailto:[email protected]] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2012 15:43 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: Setting up flume to use ganglia results in a lot of error > messages in /var/log/messages > > Looks like the RRD's are damaged, maybe the harddisk full? > > - Alex > > On Dec 12, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Juhani Connolly < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > We just noticed that ganglia's gmetad is spamming messages like the > following > > > > Dec 9 03:13:20 om-pat-obs01 /usr/sbin/gmetad[17407]: RRD_update > (/var/lib/ganglia/rrds/Flume KDDI/blog-wap02/flume.SINK.avro2.Type.rrd): > /var/lib/ganglia/rrds/Flume KDDI/blog-wap02/flume.SINK.avro2.Type.rrd: > conversion of 'SINK' to float not complete: tail 'SINK' > > Dec 9 03:13:20 om-pat-obs01 /usr/sbin/gmetad[17407]: RRD_update > (/var/lib/ganglia/rrds/Flume KDDI/blog-wap02/flume.CHANNEL.ch1.Type.rrd): > /var/lib/ganglia/rrds/Flume KDDI/blog-wap02/flume.CHANNEL.ch1.Type.rrd: > conversion of 'CHANNEL' to float not complete: tail 'CHANNEL' > > Dec 9 03:13:20 om-pat-obs01 /usr/sbin/gmetad[17407]: RRD_update > (/var/lib/ganglia/rrds/Flume KDDI/blog-wap11/flume.SINK.avro1.Type.rrd): > /var/lib/ganglia/rrds/Flume KDDI/blog-wap11/flume.SINK.avro1.Type.rrd: > conversion of 'SINK' to float not complete: tail 'SINK' > > Dec 9 03:13:20 om-pat-obs01 /usr/sbin/gmetad[17407]: RRD_update > (/var/lib/ganglia/rrds/Flume KDDI/blog-wap11/flume.SOURCE.scribe.Type.rrd): > /var/lib/ganglia/rrds/Flume KDDI/blog-wap11/flume.SOURCE.scribe.Type.rrd: > conversion of 'SOURCE' to float not complete: tail 'SOURCE' > > > > The counters are tracked fine on the web interface, but we've had > issues(gmetad crashing or not starting up, I'm still trying to get > specifics from the responsible people). I can't say for sure if this is a > ganglia problem or a problem with flumes ganglia support. Anyone else > feeding their counters to ganglia getting similar? Perhaps the ganglia ml > may be more appropriate, not sure on this one. > > -- > Alexander Alten-Lorenz > http://mapredit.blogspot.com > German Hadoop LinkedIn Group: http://goo.gl/N8pCF > >
