Re: [pcp] GSOC 2016 idea for PCP

[Lukas Berk <lberk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Charles,

Charles Cui <charles.cui1984@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
[...]
>     Awesome, glad to hear things worked well. Did you happen to try
>     running
>     the testsuite?
>     
>
> If I understand correctly, it is tests under the qa folder, right?
> I am currently running it, and will post you my results later.

Yep.  I might consider running it under the installed pcp-testuite
package (as the pcpqa user), instead of under the source tree.
Let me know how it fares.  May I suggest running a quicker, './check -g
sanity -x flakey' run first, to make sure things are setup properly
before running a full testrun?

[...]
>     the PCP community). Once we've gotten that working in a golang
>     implementation, we could proceed to working on 'real' golang pmda.
>     Did
>     you have a specific domain in mind?
>
> Yes, that will work for me by starting with an easier task. 
> I prefer to monitor memcache or database. Sounds good? 

Sure, just be aware that we do have a memcache pmda, as well as several
database pmdas already (check src/pmdas/ for a full list).  That being
said, there are always more databases to monitor.  Feel free to choose
one you're interested in and detail it in your proposal.

Cheers,

Lukas