worked, thanks! (13 sec, without forks :) 2008/11/18 McDonald, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 20:34 +0100, Jakub M wrote: >> Also, I am running MRT from /etc/cron.d as multiple entries every 5 >> minutes - is it OK? I mean, I have dozens of entries in cron.d, > > you are, therefore, loading dozens of copies of perl every 5 minutes. > That chews up ram, and if you run out, then the box swaps. swapping is > bad for performance. > > >> maybe >> it is better to run it as a single MRTG run (with a terribly long >> command line?) > > > No, my command line is very short: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] cfg]$ sudo cat /etc/cron.d/mrtg > */5 * * * * mrtg /usr/local/bin/mrtg /var/mrtg/cfg/mrtg.cfg > --logging=mrtg.log > > but mrtg.cfg is very large. It is full of Include: statements, e.g: > > Include: /var/mrtg/cfg/common.cfg > Include: /var/mrtg/cfg/sitea/sitea-router1.cfg > Include: /var/mrtg/cfg/sitea/sitea-router2.cfg > Include: /var/mrtg/cfg/sitea/sitea-ups1.cfg > ... > > In common.cfg, I have all of the standard things, like LogDir:, HtmlDir: > and ImageDir:, the forks: declaration, and LogFormat: rrdtool > > mrtg farms out the polling amongst the 30 forks, then does the disk > writes sequentially so as to minimize disk collisions. > > > -- > Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX > Austin Energy > http://www.austinenergy.com > > > _______________________________________________ > mrtg mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg > >
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