On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 10:34, Ryan Sweet wrote: > If you have enough ram to hold the data, (depends on the number of metrics, > which depends on your OS, and whether or not you have custom metrics) you > can put gmetad on a ram based filesystem, such as tmpfs, and just rsync > the rrds to disk at regular intervals. This should smooth out your gmetad > performance considerably.
OK -- it is ridiculous how well this works. -- The load on the gmetad server just dropped to almost nothing. This is a suggestion that every one should use...it just works :) Nic -- Nicholas Henke Penguin Herder & Linux Cluster System Programmer Liniac Project - Univ. of Pennsylvania

