[Planetlab-users] Help on understading Comon data..

Vivek Pai vivek at CS.Princeton.EDU
Mon Nov 13 17:17:44 EST 2006


There's no legend. The closest thing to a rosetta stone is
http://summer.cs.princeton.edu/status/monall.conf
It's the configuration file that says how to extract
data from the node-centric data and present it in the table.
It's sort of human-readable.

Rohini Prinja wrote:

> Hi
>
> I was looking at the one of the data files that I downloaded from 
> Comon website (dump_comon_*; the one that gives node-centric data).
>
> I have some difficulty in interpreting some of the fields that are 
> there in this file, like:
>
>     * VMStat (Are these virtual memory statistics? In that case, what
>       are different space-separated values are?)
>     * CPUUse (System CPU, Busy CPU?)
>     * DNSFail
>     * RWFS
>     * MemPress
>     * Test206
>     * SamePorts and SameHog
>
> For some of other such fields like burps, purks etc., I did find some 
> information at following post:
>
> http://lists.planet-lab.org/pipermail/users/2005-May/001433.html
>
> It’ll be great if someone can point me to the legend for these fields.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rohini
>
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