From my recent performance tests, I’d say the benefits of using daemon mode (particularly if you’re using it in conjunction with RRDTool 1.4.x and its memory-mapped IO) far outweigh any configuration headaches. It is far more efficient in disk IO, the only headaches being that (a) you cannot control the sequence or precise timing of the individual checks, (b) you need to tune the number of Forks: appropriately for your system’s capacity, and (c) you need to restart the daemon if you change the config files. To get around (c) I’ve been working on a patch for MRTG that forces a re-read if the cfg file has been modified but this has not yet been submitted. I really think you’re overestimating the network load of the SNMP checks. We’re running a few thousand cheks every 5 min here and we’re not coming close to the 100Mb network capacity. Steve ________________________________ Steve Shipway ITS Unix Services Design Lead University of Auckland, New Zealand Floor 1, 58 Symonds Street, Auckland Phone: +64 (0)9 3737599 ext 86487 DDI: +64 (0)9 924 6487 Mobile: +64 (0)21 753 189 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arvon Griffiths Sent: Tuesday, 28 September 2010 10:27 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mrtg] New MRTG install... Run as Daemon and RRD setup? This is a Linux box... I know 350+ smtp transactions isn't that much traffic but, I'm polling for traffic and errors and I'm using the box for alerting circuits up/dn and plan on processing traps on it so, I wanted to be as efficient as possible to it. That being said, it sounds like the headaches involved in running it in Daemon mode are greater than the performance gain. Opinions?
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