updated bestman (SRM) parser and R code

I’ve updated the bestman parser, which was previously trying to link together the events by a combination of path and thread-id, to do a much simpler operation using the request identifier (rid). This is a big improvement over the previous version linked to here, which wasn’t trying to link them together at all (!) In addition to making the code simpler and more reliable, it also should help decoding the raw output as the rid has some information about the user and type of request inside it.

The new code is in subversion and should be in the development release tomorrow (Dec 12). I also updated the R code to use the new name in the ‘ident’ table (’req’ instead of ‘guid’). See the previous post for details on getting the code out of subversion, running the parser and loader, etc.

You can get a new sample logfile off the NetLogger Wiki on the SRM/BeStMan page.