-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 27/01/10 08:22 AM, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:40 AM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote: >> I would highly recommend using tmpfs for the checkresults directory. >> This is especially important on logging file systems like JFS, XFS, >> Ext3+ and ReiserFS since every meta-data operation will cause a log >> write+flush (at the very least) which will cause a constant stream of >> unneeded IO. > > > Thanks for the advice - this sounds perfectly practical, as long as > those files are not important to persist across nagios restarts. The > JFS partition is on top of DRBD, so if I move to tmpfs, the contents > will disappear when a failover happens - that should be okay I take it?
Absolutely. checkresults, temp files and status.dat don't need to stick around. In normal circumstances there should not be any file left behind in these directories after a clean shutdown. This will also save you some useless network traffic if you can avoid DRDB replication :) - -- Thomas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFLYNMs6dZ+Kt5BchYRAiTfAJ4hLynuqHNndi8pFPm7GHKDrkao1gCgtm5o ov6rKYEZf6KBufZmkhcBYz0= =kbdH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
