[hobbit] New feature ?

[Buchan Milne]

On Wednesday 28 November 2007 08:01:44 Everett, Vernon wrote:
> Hi Henrik
>
> I would like to propose a possible new feature.
> In the hobbit-clients.cfg on the server, we can specify default
> threshholds for most things, but the selection is based on hostname.
>
> Is there a way to specify the machine architecture as an identifier.
> (uname -n
>
> To give an example, I run a mixed bag of Sun T2000, V440, V490, and
> X4?00 servers.
> Because of what we are running on each server type, we find a large run
> queue on the T2000 is quite normal, but on one of the others, we expect
> a very small run queue.
> Instead of defining runqueue threshhold per host name, it would be nice
> to have a ARCH option which could be overridden by the HOST

But, IMHO, the threshold should be dependant more on the number of CPUs, 
rather than on the architecture. For example, we have a higher threshold on 
our X4600s (8 physical, dual core) than our X4100s/X4200s (2 physical, some 
dual-core).

How many CPUs does the Sun T2000 have/report ?

Regards,
Buchan