Ethan Galstad wrote:
> On 22 Mar 2006 at 9:49, Jason Martin wrote:
>
>
>>On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:42:33AM -0600, Ethan Galstad wrote:
>>
>>>1. Plugin output is written to a temp file
>>
>>Won't this be a lot of overhead for large installations? I'm
>>imagine 10K+ services on a few minutes check interval -- that's
>>going to be a lot of temp file creations and destructions. It
>>could be placed on a RAM disk to make it faster I suppose, but I
>>am wondering if some other mechanism would scale better.
>>
>>-Jason Martin
>>--
>
>
> Disk I/O doesn't look to be a problem. I've been doing some testing
> with 2k+ services on a 1.7GHz workstation-class machine with an IDE
> drive and the only limiting factor as I scale things up seems to be
> the CPU.
>
>
2k services is not a lot. We have several customers running that many
service-checks, and a few running upwards of 10k.
With this patch the limit is also set pretty firmly at 32768 for
Linux-servers running ext2 or derivatives.
I'll see if I can get some measurements done with huge configs on
equally huge hardware.
--
Andreas Ericsson [email protected]
OP5 AB www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231
This post was automatically imported from historical nagios-devel mailing list archives
Original poster: [email protected]