Nagios XI Performance Issues-RAM Utilization

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anoop
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Re: Nagios XI Performance Issues-RAM Utilization

Post by anoop »

HI Team,

Actually, we installed our Nagios XI Server, Offloaded MYSQL Server and Incident Manager servers on VMware ESXi boxes....


We are guessing the problem would be with "iowait" and also thinking the problem may be with storage IOPS... Can u pls suggest us whether i am right on that...


and i am attaching my free -m output for youre reference,...
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System:
Nagios XI Version : 2012R2.2 | PHP Version: 5.3.3
Offloaded MySQL DB on another virtual machine
16 CPU with 2 cores each | 32 GB RAM | 1 TB HDD
CentOS-6.3 |Total = 4,000 hosts| 40,000 services.
abrist
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Re: Nagios XI Performance Issues-RAM Utilization

Post by abrist »

It looks like 10gb of the 12gb of memory in use are used by disk buffers. Essentially, this means that nagios is using 2gb or less of ram and the kernel is allocating 10gb to disk buffers. So no problem there.
anoop wrote:We are guessing the problem would be with "iowait" and also thinking the problem may be with storage IOPS... Can u pls suggest us whether i am right on that...
The top output you posted showed oi wait at 0%. You may want to run top for a while, checking the io wait for spikes . . .
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anoop
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Re: Nagios XI Performance Issues-RAM Utilization

Post by anoop »

HI Team,

I removed the RAM Cache by using

#sync
#echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches and my nagios server utilizing only 2GB of RAM...

.. Thanks.. now issue is resolved
System:
Nagios XI Version : 2012R2.2 | PHP Version: 5.3.3
Offloaded MySQL DB on another virtual machine
16 CPU with 2 cores each | 32 GB RAM | 1 TB HDD
CentOS-6.3 |Total = 4,000 hosts| 40,000 services.
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Re: Nagios XI Performance Issues-RAM Utilization

Post by slansing »

Closing as resolved.
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