[Orca-users] RE: Orca-users Digest, Vol 31, Issue 12

[David Michaels]

Whenever I upgrade Orca, I have to make modifications to the Winallator 
stuff to make it work. For instance, it doesn't handle Windows EOL 
characters properly (when run on a Unix box), so I had to make some 
tweaks to the SourceFile.pm patches it applies.  It also doesn't handle 
blank fields right (apparently it needs to translate them to some 
number, like 0.0).

I can send you a diff between my (working) winallator SourceFile.pm and 
the one included in the latest build.

BTW, for clarification purposes -- even though "winallator" is in the 
"data_gatherers" directory, it doesn't actually gather the performance 
data from the system -- it merely converts Windows "perfrmon" data into 
Orca-happy data format.  That might be different from the "Orca for NT" 
you're talking about (which could be construed as a Windows version of 
the rrd-to-graphs&html part of the flow -- not sure if that's working on 
Windows?).

Blair, pending QA confirmation from Phillip, I can also send the updated 
patch to you to replace the existing patch in the distribution's 
winallator directory.  Assuming that there aren't any active toes for me 
to step on. :)  I haven't managed to get svn working through the 
corporate firewalls & proxies, otherwise I'd be happy to do it myself.  
It may be time to revisit that, though.

--Dragon

Blair Zajac wrote:

> Philip Holbus wrote:
>
>>     What ever happened to Orca for NT ....
>>
>>     Does it exist and is anyone supporting it...
>>
>>     Thanks
>>     PJH
>
>
> It's in the latest snapshots as winallator.  It hasn't been seeing 
> active support, but if people want to take parts of it on, let me know.
>
> Regards,
> Blair
>