Re: [Ganglia-general] Setup large clusters

2008-03-12 Thread Seth Graham
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

Re: [Ganglia-general] Setup large clusters

2008-03-12 Thread Martin Hicks
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:52:03AM -0500, Seth Graham wrote: 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

Re: [Ganglia-general] Setup large clusters

2008-03-12 Thread Jesse Becker
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Martin Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm wondering what the suggested setup is for a large Grid. I'm having trouble with scalaing ganglia to work on large clusters. Have you considered turning off disk read-ahead on the partition that includes the