From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 13 19:48:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9DD016A4AB; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:48:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lamont@cluepon.com) Received: from clavin.cluepon.com (clavin.cluepon.com [64.154.215.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2932943D69; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:46:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lamont@cluepon.com) Received: from lamont by clavin.cluepon.com with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 1GjhlX-0001JZ-00; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:46:47 -0800 Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:46:47 -0800 From: Lamont Lucas To: Bill Fumerola Message-ID: <20061113194647.GK52665@clavin.cluepon.com> References: <4557988B.4000902@free-4ever.net> <20061113013209.GB65089@Geeks.ORG> <20061113191902.GJ28339@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061113191902.GJ28339@elvis.mu.org> Organization: Cluepon Consulting, Inc. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Guillaume Subject: Re: cacti system tuning X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:48:01 -0000 On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:19:02AM -0800, Bill Fumerola wrote: > it's also much easier to debug problems with either the poller itself > or the devices being polled. > > i'd use the php poller with cacti. Agreed. I had problems with the poller taking too long to process our 1200 datasources but quickly resolved it by increasing the number of poller processes that could run at once, from the default 1 up to 4. My 6.1-release machine (2 cpus, plenty of ram) never breaks a sweat polling those hosts and processing the results. -- - Lamont "I am not an atomic playboy."