Re: [pcp] pmlogger_merge failing on Centos 6.4

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

----- Original Message -----
> proc metrics are being logged.
> 
> This is short term, while we are watching a situation
> 
> >   ... this seems excessive, _unless_
> > the proc metrics are being logged also (big indom,
> > changes every fetch, huge meta data file and we load
> > that all into memory at the archive open time).
> 

BTW, a longer-term solution here would be to use a cgroup
for reducing the process indom and reigning in its huge
variation.  Requires some coding in cgroup_procs_fetch()
in src/pmdas/linux_proc/cgroups.c though (commented block
marked with TODO in there).

cheers.

--
Nathan