Today you sent me mail regarding [mrtg-developers] Re: How many Routers we...:
BN> BN> Jaji Hegde wrote: BN> > 1. How many routers we can poll with polling frequency of 5 minutes. BN> > Roughly, if you have done any experiment that would be great. Lets BN> > assume on average 3 interface for each device. BN> BN> I estimate we could do at least 3000 targets with MRTG 2.9pre26 and BN> rrdtool on an Ultra 2. That's 1000 routers /w three interfaces each. BN> BN> > 2. If the polling doesn't finish by 5 minutes, when cron tries to start BN> > the second mrtg what happens. BN> BN> The new job will die and the old one will finish. With rateup, this BN> wasn't a big problem, but with rrdtool the graphs gets really ugly. * can you elaborate on the 'ugly' bit ? * you may want to use the daemon mode then the mrtg will run continuously if it does not finish withing the interval tobi BN> BN> > 3. How CPU intensive is mrtg. BN> BN> Not very; lots of time is spendt on I/O. But you would want to fork BN> a lot. BN> BN> > 4. How can we scale it to poll more routers in the given polling BN> > frequency. BN> BN> Add more iron? BN> BN> -- ______ __ _ /_ __/_ / / (_) Oetiker, Timelord & SysMgr @ EE-Dept ETH-Zurich / // _ \/ _ \/ / TEL: +41(0)1-6325286 FAX:...1517 ICQ: 10419518 /_/ \.__/_.__/_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg-developers
