Changeset 232 for trunk

Timestamp:

03/10/06 17:56:37 (18 years ago)

Author:

bastiaans

Message:

INSTALL:

• added special features to description

File:

• trunk/INSTALL (modified) (3 diffs)

trunk/INSTALL

@@ -21 +21 @@
                 jobs/nodes that are in it (be it either running or queued).
 
-        * jobarchived
-
-                The Job Archiving Daemon (optionally).
+        * jobarchived (optionally)
+
+                The Job Archiving Daemon.
 
                 Listens to Ganglia's XML stream and archives the job and node statistics.
@@ -33 +33 @@
 
                 Optionally: You can either choose to use this daemon if your users have use for it.
-                As it can be a heavy application to run - even though optimized (staged/buffered writes
-                and multi threaded) - and not everyone may have a need for it.
+                As it can be a heavy application to run and not everyone may have a need for it.
+
+                - Multithreaded:        Will not miss any data regardless of (slow) storage
+
+                - Staged writing:       Spread load over bigger time periods
+
+                - High precision RRDs:  Allow for zooming on old periods with large precision
+
+                - Timeperiod RRDs:      Allow for smaller number of files while still keeping advantage
+                                        of small disk space
                 
         * web
@@ -44 +52 @@
 
                 It does this in a similar layout/setup as Ganglia itself, so the navigation and usage is intuitive.
-                
+
+                - Graphical usage:      Displays graphical cluster overview so you can see the cluster (job) state
+                                        in one view/image and additional pie chart with relevant information on your
+                                        current view
+
+                - Filters:              Ability to filter output to limit information displayed (usefull for those
+                                        clusters with 500+ jobs). This also filters the graphical overview images output
+                                        and pie chart so you only see the filter relevant data
+
+                - Archive:              When enabling jobarchived, users can go back as far as recorded in the database
+                                        or archived RRDs to find out what happened to a crashed or old job
+
+                - Zoom ability:         Users can zoom into a timepriod as small as the smallest grain of the RRDS
+                                        (typically up to 10 seconds) when a jobarchived is present
 
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