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> On 05/13/2016 10:34 AM, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > Hi Ken,
> >
> > I've seen two cases this week of people starting to get sufficiently
> > large archive .meta files that compression has been requested, or at
> > least considered (both times from the well known proc-indom issue).
>
> The proc-indom issue is in large part due to the external instance names
> for proc metrics - these include the pid and command *and* all arguments.
> e.g. to see what I mean: run pminfo -f proc.psinfo.stime | grep chrome
>
> I propose we shorten this to just the pid and cmd name, without all the args
> - apps can also fetch proc.psinfo.psargs if they need the entire command
> line.
Yep, that's a good point - I like that approach.
> Not sure how we'd accommodate downrev/remote clients, but it'd certainly
> help reduce the metadata size in archives containing proc metrics.
Not sure we can (nor have to?) accommodate that - I guess we could have a
back-compat option to pmdaproc to generate the old-style instance names?
cheers.
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Nathan
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