Dave, In your list, I think "enable-statistics" should be "enable-time-statistics". But, yes you're right!
On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 9:46 AM Dave Barnes <dbar...@pivotal.io> wrote: > I'm getting the impression that the user guide could be clearer with regard > to the interactions between > > - enable-statistics > - statistic-sampling-enabled > - statistic-archive-file > > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 9:30 AM Kirk Lund <kl...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Try setting STATISTIC_SAMPLING_ENABLED to false to disable statistic > > sampling. > > > > I think we should delete "An empty string (default) disables statistic > > archival." from the javadocs for STATISTIC_ARCHIVE_FILE to avoid > confusion > > and redundancy with STATISTIC_SAMPLING_ENABLED. > > > > See below for the javadocs on both properties. > > > > /** > > * The static String definition of the <i>"statistic-archive-file"</i> > > property <a > > * name="statistic-archive-file"/a> > > * </p> > > * <U>Description</U>: The file that statistic samples are written to. > An > > empty string (default) > > * disables statistic archival. > > * </p> > > * <U>Default</U>: "" > > */ > > String STATISTIC_ARCHIVE_FILE = "statistic-archive-file"; > > > > /** > > * The static String definition of the > > <i>"statistic-sampling-enabled"</i> property <a > > * name="statistic-sampling-enabled"/a> > > * </p> > > * <U>Description</U>: "true" causes the statistics to be sampled > > periodically and operating > > * system statistics to be fetched each time a sample is taken. "false" > > disables sampling which > > * also disables operating system statistic collection. Non OS > statistics > > will still be recorded > > * in memory and can be viewed by administration tools. However, charts > > will show no activity and > > * no statistics will be archived while sampling is disabled. Starting > in > > 7.0 the default value > > * has been changed to true. If statistic sampling is disabled it will > > also cause various metrics > > * seen in gfsh and pulse to always be zero. > > * </p> > > * <U>Default</U>: "true" > > * </p> > > * <U>Allowed values</U>: true|false > > */ > > String STATISTIC_SAMPLING_ENABLED = "statistic-sampling-enabled"; > > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 1:06 AM Mario Kevo <mario.k...@est.tech> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > We are trying to disable archiving statistic in the file by providing > > > empty string to --statistic-archive-file. This option doesn't work. > > > From the documentation it should work: > > > The file to which the running system member writes statistic samples. > For > > > example: “StatisticsArchiveFile.gfs”. An empty string disables > archiving. > > > I opened ticket(GEODE-7714< > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEODE-7714>) and try to fix it, > > but > > > without success. > > > > > > As alter runtime command update properties and cache, it checks if any > of > > > these parameters change, but if we set this property to an empty string > > it > > > failed with message > > > Please provide a relevant parameter(s). > > > We can change for this parameter that it can be an empty string but how > > > this command works, it goes over all parameters and checks if it is > > > changed. In that case if we provide something like > > > alter runtime --member=server it will be successiful but shouldn't as > we > > > didn't provide any parameter. > > > > > > So the proposal is that we need to add a new parameter called > > > --statistic-archiving-enabled which can be true or false. In case it > is > > > true we need to provide also --statistic-archive-file. > > > > > > Any thougths? > > > > > > BR, > > > Mario > > > > > > > > >