Re: [pcp] braindump on unified-context / live-logging

[Max Matveev <makc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:19:26 -0800, Greg Banks wrote:

 gnb> While I designed and wrote the thing, I was never happy with any
 gnb> of the iterations of the architecture and I wouldn't recommend
 gnb> to anyone that they copy it. Some of the problems were:

 gnb>   * it was both a client of pmcd and a PMDA, which led to interesting 
 gnb> deadlocks with the single-threaded pmcd

That was the "second" pass with nasavg pmda. I thought there was a
first version which only used archives but it had to be abandoned
because tailing of archive being written wasn't working reliably.

max