Re: [pcp] Derived metric issues

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> > [...]
> > pmRegisterDerived does not apply retrospectively to any open contexts,
> > so the normal use would be to make all calls to pmRegisterDerived
> > (possibly via pmLoadDerivedConfig(3)) and then call pmNewContext(3).
> 
> A-ha!
> 
> > I'd welcome any suggestions as to how this important piece of
> > information could be made more visible.
> 
> After reading the above now it's of course obvious.. Perhaps a short
> note in the first section of pmLoadDerivedConfig(3) along the lines
> "Note that pmLoadDerivedConfig needs to be called before creating a new
> context" or something like that would be enough.
> 

pmReconnectContext(3) can also be used, I believe (that's what the python
wrapper uses anyway).

cheers.

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Nathan