----- "Ken McDonell" <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 22:34 +1000, Mark Goodwin wrote:
> ...
> > ok, pcp-import it is. I'll pull in Ken's tree and do the packaging
> > work + version bumps in dev to make this happen, and ..
>
> Thanks Mark.
>
> > ...
> > well yes, but in those cases they've moved into their own tree,
> > which is quite a bit more dramatic than just sub-packaging.
> > We need to avoid trees breeding like rabbits too - I'd really
> > rather that stuff came back into the pcp tree eventually.
>
> +1 from me if this is feasible
I wouldn't be overly happy with infiniband coming back into pcp,
it was moved out for good reason IMO (external libs, headers and
added configure.in complexity). Maybe cluster pmda, if it had a
brain transplant & became generic.
> > ps: /me is currently bombarded with iostat data - I can see
> iostat2pcp
> > happening before too long :)
>
> Good luck here ... there appear to be a million option combinations
> possible (and hence ascii output formats), no binary data format,
> plus
> all the host-specific device naming, and (the real killer) iostat
> never
> reports the time of day nor the sample interval ... if you get this
Looks like -t option (at least to sysstat's iostat) will print the
timestamp for each sample. And it appears the S_TIME_FORMAT env
variable set to "ISO" will give timestamp with timezone info.
cheers.
--
Nathan
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