Re: [pcp] Derived Metrics with rate()

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> 
> My current thoughts are to extend $PCP_DERIVED_CONFIG to be a $PATH-style
> list, and then if a directory appears in the list, all the files in that
> directory will be processed as though they are derived metric specification
> files.  This is (a) backwards compatible, (b) optional, and (c) gives a
> short-hard way of naming a bunch of derived metric files.
> 
> I'd greatly appreciate feedback on this "library" of derived metrics
> suggestion.
> 

I like it - nice & simple too.  I think it would also be good to promote
the --derived pminfo option to be a standard option that all tools can
easily access (via pmGetOptions) - I'm happy to hack on that bit if people
tend to agree?

cheers.

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Nathan