Re: [Ganglia-developers] gmetad and rrdtool scalability

2009-12-20 Thread Spike Spiegel
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Vladimir Vuksan vli...@veus.hr wrote: I think you guys are complicating much :-). Can't you simply have multiple gmetads in different sites poll a single gmond. That way if one gmetad fails data is still available and updated on the other gmetads. That is what

Re: [Ganglia-developers] gmetad and rrdtool scalability

2009-12-20 Thread Spike Spiegel
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon care...@sajinet.com.pe wrote: a) you are only concerned with redundancy and not looking for scalability - when I say scalability, I refer to the idea of maybe 3 or more gmetads running in parallel collecting data from huge numbers of

Re: [Ganglia-developers] gmetad and rrdtool scalability

2009-12-20 Thread Jesse Becker
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:49, Spike Spiegel fsm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Vladimir Vuksan vli...@veus.hr wrote: I think you guys are complicating much :-). Can't you simply have multiple gmetads in different sites poll a single gmond. That way if one gmetad fails

Re: [Ganglia-developers] gmetad and rrdtool scalability

2009-12-20 Thread Jesse Becker
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:02, Spike Spiegel fsm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon care...@sajinet.com.pe wrote: a) you are only concerned with redundancy and not looking for scalability - when I say scalability, I refer to the idea of maybe 3 or

Re: [Ganglia-developers] gmetad and rrdtool scalability

2009-12-20 Thread Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:02:36PM +, Spike Spiegel wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon care...@sajinet.com.pe wrote: b) you can afford to have duplicate storage - if your storage requirements are huge (retaining a lot of historic data or lot's of data

[Ganglia-developers] Configurable RRAs [was Re: gmetad and rrdtool scalability]

2009-12-20 Thread Rick Cobb
Changed subjects because this part of the discussion is important enough to have its own thread On Dec 20, 2009, at 8:55 AM, Jesse Becker wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:02, Spike Spiegel fsm...@gmail.commailto:fsm...@gmail.com wrote: ... I think there's a middle ground here that'd be