Martin Hicks wrote: > The configuration of gmetad has been modified to store the rrds in > /dev/shm, but this directory gets very large so I'd like to move away > from that.
Using tmpfs is pretty much your only option. As you discovered, the disk I/O will bring most machines to their knees. > Is there a way that I should be architecting the configuration files > to make ganglia scale to work on this cluster? > > I think I want to run gmetad on each head node, and to use that RRD data > without > regenerating it on the admin node. Is that possible? This is definitely possible, though I don't think it's necessary. I have machines handling 1500 reporting nodes without problems, writing the rrds to a tmpfs. The downside of setting up ganglia with head nodes is that you have to set up some way to make the rrds available to a central web server. Several ways to do that too, but they introduce their own headaches. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list Ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
