Re: [jmob] Probes for CLIF

[Marek Prochazka <marek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

returning couple of weeks back:
 
> I see no problem with it, the code was written by me and my two
> colleagues and there are no license issues except for the standard
> opensource "do mention where this comes from" requirement.

So is the code now available for download? Some documentation except for 
javadoc and sources?

We are doing some RT Java and RT CORBA benchmarking and such probes seem 
very useful for us.

Thanks,
Marek

> 
> > I also agree with Emmanuel that separated probes are better, even 
> > though I also think that it should be possible to have a single probe
> > watching more than one resource (in some cases, for practical or 
> > efficiency reasons).
> 
> This is IMHO a very important point. Especially on Windows, and to a 
> lesser degree also on Solaris, the information is gathered through a 
> single syscall that returns tens of kilobytes of data reporting on 
> multiple resources together. You would definitely NOT want to have 
> separate probes, each of them calling the same syscall and discarding 
> most of the returned data because they report on other resources. Some 
> means of sharing the data between probes, or having a single probe 
> reporting on multiple resources, should be available.
> 
> Regards, Petr
> 
>