[Orca-users] Re: Call me picky but ... Question on "System Overview" description

[Blair Zajac]

Sean O'Neill wrote:
> 
> I just read the "System Overview" Description at
> http://www.orcaware.com/orca/docs/orcallator.html#system_overview.  The
> part of this that makes me "blink" is:
> 
> 0.5 - Blue state - imbalance, idle while other instances of the resource
> are overloaded
> 
> Is this REALLY what it means ?  Seems "wrong" to me that I can go from:
> 
> 0 - idle
> 0.5 - Something is broken
> 1 - Everything is fine
> 2 - Something may be breaking

By the way, the values have been updated to

    case ST_WHITE: return  0; /* OK states are zero. */
    case ST_BLUE:  return  1;
    case ST_GREEN: return  2;
    case ST_AMBER: return  4; /* Bad states have a non-zero value. */
    case ST_RED:   return  8;
    case ST_BLACK: return 16;

I just updated the web page.

Yes, it is odd.  Since orcallator.se uses SE's definitions of colors,
I checked pure_rules.se.  The only two places where BLUE is used is
in the disk and ethernet rules when the busiest disk or ethernet device
is AMBER or above and the quietest is GREEN or below.

The BLUE reflects an overall state, not the maximum state of any
one disk or ethernet device.

Best,
Blair

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Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
Web and OS performance plots - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/