Hello all, I love pmacct, been using it for a couple months now. Aside from a couple bumps in the road, all except for a couple of which have been worked out, its been pretty easy to get working. Ive got pnrg creating graphs of my bandwidth usage, and Im working on a specialized daemon to monitor my bandwidth usage based on my billing cycle with my ISP. I'm here because Im looking for any advice in improving my config, and with some problems Ive been having.
First off, I was wondering if anyone has seen anything similar to the first bit of trouble I'm having. When I torrent, if I continue for prolonged periods of time (a day or more), my sql server starts to get bogged down with updates from pmacct. Looking in MySQL Admin, I can see a bunch of lines that look like ID, User, Host, DB, Command, Time, State, Info x pmacct x pmacct Query 0 Updating UPDATE pmacct_v7_outgoing_201002 SET packets... x pmacct x pmacct Query 3698 Locked LOCK TABLES ... WRITE ... x pmacct x pmacct Query 0 Updating UPDATE pmacct_v7_incoming_201002 SET packets... x pmacct x pmacct Query 2198 Locked LOCK TABLES ... WRITE The longer I leave my torrents going, the more of those queue up. I've tried increasing the sql_history directive to 5m, and it mitigates it somewhat, but only mildly. Does anyone know how I can keep those from queuing up like that? My sql server is currently on my most powerful machine. Secondly, I was hoping someone could advise on an optimal config for what I'm trying to do. In my config, the memory[in] and memory[out] plugins are for pnrg, and memory[tcd_in] and memory[tcd_out] plugins are for my script to be able to check the bandwidth usage. The script is pretty rudimentary, every 60 seconds or so it calls pmacct on the pipe to get the number of bytes since the last call and to reset the counters. The mysql[incoming] and mysql[outgoing] plugins are to just store as much fine-grained info as possible in sql to be able to play with later. Should I be running separate daemons for each plugin? Am I trying to have my cake and eat it to in the way that I'm trying to store as much info in sql and not have sql choke? I had to really crank the plugin_pipe_size waaay up there in order to avoid getting messages in my logs about some of the info getting lost or something. _That_ high though? Am I doing something wrong there? Any help, comments, witty responses, or napkins with pretty drawings on them will be appreciated :) _______________________________________________ pmacct-discussion mailing list http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists
