[Ganglia-general] high load with gmetad

2002-08-21 Thread markp
Is anyone experiencing a high load with gmetad? I've run this daemon on a high end intel 933mhz dual proc machine with 1gb of memory and RH 7.2. Loads get and stay as high as 3. I get worse results on single processor machines, loads as high as 6.7 Kill the daemon and it drops back to normal.

Re: [Ganglia-general] high load with gmetad

2002-08-21 Thread Steven Wagner
markp wrote: Is anyone experiencing a high load with gmetad? I've run this daemon on a high end intel 933mhz dual proc machine with 1gb of memory and RH 7.2. Loads get and stay as high as 3. I get worse results on single processor machines, loads as high as 6.7 Kill the daemon and it drops b

Re: [Ganglia-general] high load with gmetad

2002-08-21 Thread markp
I'm using it to monitor a 260 host linux cluster. The old perl web-frontend didn't exhibit this type of behaviour. I'm seriously thinking of going back to it. Steven Wagner wrote: > markp wrote: > > Is anyone experiencing a high load with gmetad? I've run this daemon on > > a high end intel 93

Re: [Ganglia-general] high load with gmetad

2002-08-22 Thread matt massie
mark- i've seen this behavior on the machine running the ganglia demo page but it's just a p2 with 128 mbs of memory (soon to be upgraded). i'm rewriting gmetad in C right now and will be incorporating it into the monitoring-core distribution soon. the biggest bottleneck right now with gmetad

Re: [Ganglia-general] high load with gmetad

2002-08-22 Thread Steven Wagner
Remember that RRD files are of a fixed size. In other words, they should never grow beyond their original size when created. That's why they call 'em round-robin databases. :) So the only reason new RRDs would be created is if new metrics were added for existing hosts or if new hosts were ad