On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 04:22:56PM +0000, Martin Beecroft wrote: > I spent the best part of 2 days trying to fix my installation of JFF, > and now have a monitoring solution that works again. The problem was > related to rrdtool thrashing the disk to within an inch of it's life, a > vmstat 1 10 was showing a bi value of consistently 20,000. I fixed the > problem by tweaking the readahead value on the disk with a "blockdev > --setra 64 /dev/sdb1" > > I'm not sure if anyone else has seen similar problems, or whether this > solution would help them, but I thought I'd best throw this out there in > case anyone else is struggling.
Now this does sound a little familiar to someone elses problem. I think it was David; if it was can you confirm I'm sort of in the right area? I wonder if rrdtool is misbehaving? - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au http://www.debian.org/ Debian GNU/Linux, software should be Free ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ jffnms-users mailing list jffnms-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jffnms-users
