1.) More details would be useful. How many datasets are you graphing? How many points per hour are you graphing? How
Have you looked at Disk I/O as the bo -Nick On Jul 31, 2011, at 5:15 AM, Steve Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > New question #166527 on Graphite: > https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/166527 > > This is probably more of a Python question than a Graphite question but I > thought I'd ask for other users experiences and advice. My Python skills are > not far past the "Hello world" stage (although I'm getting better!) > > When I first started playing with Graphite I installed it on a VMWare VM > (Ubuntu 10.10). Unsurprisingly, once I started putting lots of data in to it > the rendering slowed down. What I found though was that even by adding > memcache and giving the VM more processors there was not much of an > improvement to the rendering. > > Now that my company has decided we're going to adopt Graphite I've been doing > a few experiments with the hardware I have available. I've taken 3 large > datasets I created (a little script that just creates a text file of > steve.metric.1 <random number> <timestamp every 5 secs>) and uploaded it to a > fresh Graphite install on either Ubuntu 10.10 or RHEL 6 on four bits of > hardware: a Intel Core 2 Duo desktop, an AMD Opteron server, an Intel Qaud > core server and what we call "Dodecs" - 3 quad core AMD processor machines. > > Although you can see a difference in the processor usage - as in the dodecs > clearly aren't working as hard as the Core 2 - the end result - the time it > takes to render various graphs - doesn't seem to change much. > > My assumption is that something somewhere isn't using the available > processing power - for example, Apache is but Python isn't - which is why we > observe less processing power for the same end result? But this is an > assumption based on very solid facts, the main one being that I don't know > the inner workings of Python. > > In summary, do I need to do something to take advantage of the extra > processing power or should I not bother putting Graphite on high powered > boxes? > > Thanks in advance! > > Steve > > -- > You received this question notification because you are a member of > graphite-dev, which is an answer contact for Graphite. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
