henrik -- problems with do_vmstat.c and aix p5/p6 lpar values for cpu_pc and cpu_ec

[Kauffman, Tom]

I've been playing with this off and on for a while in our test
environment.

(Yes, I've read the wiki article).

I remember you said we should not need to strip the period out of the
value returned from vmstat, because the rrd is storing values in
floating point notation.

But -- in do_vmstat.c, you're populating the rrd update vector with this
statement : p += sprintf(p, ":%d", values[layout[defidx].index]);

Now I'm NOT a C programmer - but won't that ":%d" format explicitly
truncate the value to an integer?

The values I'm talking about are the rightmost two here:

nile:-:/home/kauffmant > vmstat 10 1

System configuration: lcpu=2 mem=8192MB ent=0.10

kthr    memory              page              faults              cpu
----- ----------- ------------------------ ------------
-----------------------
 r  b   avm   fre  re  pi  po  fr   sr  cy  in   sy  cs us sy id wa
pc    ec
 0  0 1080720 394462   0   0   0   0    0   0  28  260 147  2  7 91  0
0.01  10.2

Cpu_pc is 0.01 and cpu_ec is 10.2 -- which means I'm using 10.2 percent
of my 0.1 cpu entitlement, for a real cpu count of 0.01.

So, should I plug in the code to strip the decimal point and modify the
grapher definitions to divide by 100 and 10, or is there a simpler way
out?

TIA

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
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