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Re: [pcp] pcp updates - libpcp_import & PCP::LogImport

To: Mark Goodwin <goodwinos@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [pcp] pcp updates - libpcp_import & PCP::LogImport
From: Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:16:51 +1000
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>, pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
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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

> 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 to
work, I suggest psychic2pcp rather than iostat2pcp for the command
name ... 8^)>

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