[Nagios-users] Alleviating Nagios i/o contention problem

2010-09-25 Thread Frost, Mark {PBC}
Greetings, listers, We've got an on-going issue with i/o contention. There's the obvious problem that we've got a whole lot of things all writing to the same partition. In this case, there's just one big chunk of RAID 5 disk on a single controller so I don't believe that making more

Re: [Nagios-users] Alleviating Nagios i/o contention problem

2010-09-25 Thread Matthias Flacke
On 9/25/10 2:30 PM, Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote: Greetings, listers, We've got an on-going issue with i/o contention. There's the obvious problem that we've got a whole lot of things all writing to the same partition. In this case, there's just one big chunk of RAID 5 disk on a single

Re: [Nagios-users] Alleviating Nagios i/o contention problem

2010-09-25 Thread Max
I like the suggestions Matthias makes; those suggestions have worked well for us. RRD updates are very expensive - I am pretty sure without knowing anything more about your system that the RRD writes are causing most of the I/O load. Our current largest Nagios-based system has around 7500 hosts

Re: [Nagios-users] Alleviating Nagios i/o contention problem

2010-09-25 Thread Breandan Dezendorf
On Sep 25, 2010, at 8:30 AM, Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote: At the moment I'm concerned about the graphdata, but because I can only see i/o utilization as an aggregate, I can't tell what is the worst component on that filesystem -- status.dat updates? graph data? writes to the var/spool