Re: [Ganglia-general] Using cluster name to differentiate clusters?

2007-02-27 Thread Vladimir
Seth Graham wrote: The main web interface is my concern. Gmetad sucks up memory like it's free, and the disk I/O created when rrds are updated quickly get out of hand. Because of this we had to move the rrds to a ramdisk, which eats up even more memory. I was wondering how you back up thos

Re: [Ganglia-general] Using cluster name to differentiate clusters?

2007-02-26 Thread Seth Graham
Ben Hartshorne wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 01:06:23PM -0600, Seth Graham wrote: Ben Hartshorne wrote: It seems to me that using the name to determine cluster membership would simplify things for the people configuring ganglia. It would, but when you have 3000+ machines all chattering on the

Re: [Ganglia-general] Using cluster name to differentiate clusters?

2007-02-26 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 01:06:23PM -0600, Seth Graham wrote: > Ben Hartshorne wrote: > > > >It seems to me that using the name to determine cluster membership would > >simplify things for the people configuring ganglia. > > It would, but when you have 3000+ machines all chattering on the same > p

Re: [Ganglia-general] Using cluster name to differentiate clusters?

2007-02-26 Thread Seth Graham
Ben Hartshorne wrote: It seems to me that using the name to determine cluster membership would simplify things for the people configuring ganglia. It would, but when you have 3000+ machines all chattering on the same port that's a lot of data for a machine to deal with. Not only do the aggre

[Ganglia-general] Using cluster name to differentiate clusters?

2007-02-26 Thread Ben Hartshorne
Hi all, It is my understanding that when setting up multiple clusters, you must have a different instance of gmond running as a 'head node' for each cluster (with multicast, every node can be head node, with unicast, it is target host). Part of the gmond configuration on a given node is to assign