On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Jesse Becker <becker...@mail.nih.gov> wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 03:01:53AM -0400, Seva Gluschenko wrote:
>>
>> Aleksey,
>>
>> don't mess CPU utilization with load average, these two are pretty
>> different. While I doubt seriously that LA could rise to 100 while CPU
>> usage is 6% only, they aren't directly connected.

Acknowledged.  I can't get a correct measurement of either load average
(as in, number of jobs waiting for the CPU) or CPU percent utilization,
out of Cfengine.


> Generally, cycle scavenging programs like SETI@Home, or anything that
> runs under the BOINC framework, already have pretty good
> self-throttling features that are more flexible than what you could do
> with just cfengine.

Oh.  Got it.

> I'd suggest just making a CF3 promise to make sure that your daemons are
> running and have the proper configurations.  Then let the built-in
> routines (in your programs) do their job.

I have that already, thank you, and  that doesn't require cf-monitord.
 I'm trying
to demonstrate how cf-monitord could be useful in the real world.  Is it?
How are people using it?

Aleksey
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