Re: [Ganglia-developers] new 3.0.0 snapshot 2.5.7 feedback

[Martin K. <kn...@kn...>]

Frederico, Matt,

 would you consider the changes to support Linux-2.6.X wait-IO in gmond
for 2.5.7 if I sent you a patch or checked it in? 2.6.X is now in
pretty wide use and sampling the new metrics would be of value to
folks.

Martin
--- Federico Sacerdoti <fd...@sd...> wrote:

> No, 2.5.7 is exactly what its version number suggests: a small delta 
> from 2.5.6.
> 
> I'm not sure you all got the announcement I sent about it originally,
> 
> but the only new thing is the cleanup thread in gmetad, more accurate
> 
> TN calculations in gmetad's output, and a small patch from Rick
> Warner.
> 
> --(from Sept 29th)--
> 
> Gmetad 2.5.x never had a cleaup thread, which caused a type of memory
> 
> leak if there were lots of gmetrics from monitored clusters. This 
> version 2.5.7 fixes this problem: a gmetad cleanup thread trims the 
> metric hash tables of metrics whose DMAX (delete time) has been 
> reached.
> 


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