Brooks, That load is roughly in line with expectations, depending upon the number of custom metrics, of course.... You should make a RAM disk (for FreeBSD look here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-virtual.html) large enough to hold all of you RRD's and configure gmetad to write there. Then setup a cron that uses rsync (cd /usr/ports/net/rsync && make install if you don't have it) to copy the RRD's from the md disk to the location of your choice at some regular interval (I do it every hour). With ~150 nodes, you'll probably need at least 256-312MB of RAM in your RAM disk, but the load placed on the system by gmetad will become negligible. See the archives for more info.
Matt, Since this is now a FAQ, can you jump-start me on what the preferred method for modifying the documentation is, and I'll add a brief bit about planning for a gmetad installation. regards, -ryan -- Ryan Sweet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Atos Origin Engineering Services http://www.aoes.nl
