02-05-2010
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HPC can mean anything you want it to be.
In general "High Performance" is relative to the state-of-the-art.
What is "High Performance" today is generally "Old Hat", 5 years from now....
That may be true if you look only at the hardware. The other part of HPC is the software which is tweaked to actually fully use the hardware capabilities: that most people have the equevalent of a 10-year-old Supercomuter under their desk does not mean they are doing high performance computing...
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pmdapostfix
PMDAPOSTFIX(1) Performance Co-Pilot PMDAPOSTFIX(1)
NAME
pmdapostfix - Postfix performance metrics domain agent (PMDA)
DESCRIPTION
pmdapostfix is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports mail queue sizes as reported by qshape(1), as well as aggregate
statistics collected from mail.log.
INSTALLATION
If you want access to the names and values for the Postfix performance metrics, do the following as root:
# cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/postfix
# ./Install
If you want to undo the installation, do the following as root:
# cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/postfix
# ./Remove
pmdapostfix is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed directly. The Install and Remove scripts notify pmcd(1) when the agent is
installed or removed.
FILES
$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/postfix/Install
installation script for the pmdapostfix agent
$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/postfix/Remove
undo installation script for the pmdapostfix agent
$PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/postfix.log
default log file for error messages from pmdapostfix
SEE ALSO
pmcd(1) and qshape(1).
3.8.10 Performance Co-Pilot PMDAPOSTFIX(1)