Re: [pcp] hinv.*

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michele,

----- Original Message -----
> Hi Nathan,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 01:40:24AM -0400, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > > The default logging here is "once" for hinv, so that might need tweaking
> > > as
> > > well.
> > 
> > Yeah, hmmm, thats a bit awkward - I don't really want us to have to
> > explicitly list each hinv metric in the logging configs.  Not sure
> > what else we can do though.
> 
> Good point. What would be disadvantage of simply logging hinv.* all the
> time? Too big of an increase in archive files?

Yep, that'd be the downside.

> Or should we aim for a split of the hinv.* hierarchy into "extremely
> unlikely to ever change" and "likely to change" metrics?
> Or we just leave things as is and be it ;)

Ken's pointed out the correct path here - keep the log-once, as-is, and
add in logging on an interval of just those hinv metrics that change.

cheers.

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Nathan