Hi James,
We also used to run our master on VMWare (ESXi in our case). Our set up is
probably not as big as yours, we monitor 658 hosts/6496 services with 5
slaves. Our problem was IO. After trying to optimize mysql (helped but
didn't solve the issue), we decided to move it to a physical box.
More recently we had to move the DB to a separate box, as IO was becoming a
problem again. We do, however, graph most of the service checks we have (rrd
updates = IO) and run Cacti on the same box.
I would definitely recommend you install sysstat and use iostat for a while
to see if that is your issue.

Hope this helps,
Rafael


On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:35 PM, James Whittington <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hello fellow Opsview users.
>
> My company has had Opsview in use for a little over a year now and I think
> we are starting to see some growing pains as more stuff gets added.
>
> We are currently using version 3.5.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 , reverse tunnel
> master/slave setup.
>
> MySQL is running on the master server.
>
> We only have 466 hosts and 1557 services but those checks are distributed
> across 19 slave servers.
>
>
>
> The master server is running on a VMWare ESX 3.5 host.
>
>                 ESX Server CPU hovers between 20-35 %
>
>                 ESX Server RAM is around 80%
>
> The master Opsview server currently has 2 GB RAM, although it appears mysql
> is using about half of it.
>
> Here is a partial listing of top
>
>
>
> top - 12:17:25 up 1 day,  2:46,  2 users,  load average: 0.25, 0.88, 1.08
>
> Tasks: 186 total,   3 running, 183 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>
> Cpu(s):  1.6%us,  1.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 77.5%id, 19.1%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.1%si,
> 0.0%st
>
> Mem:   2112044k total,  1928028k used,   184016k free,   103416k buffers
>
> Swap:  1341388k total,   776816k used,   564572k free,   466224k cached
>
>
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>
>  4557 mysql     20   0 1596m 1.1g 4336 S    1 53.7  44:47.91 mysqld
>
>  4849 root      20   0  2564  920  772 S    1  0.0   5:54.77 vmware-guestd
>
> 25640 nagios    20   0  5764 2948 1596 S    1  0.1   0:00.03
> update_snmptrap
>
>  2480 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    1  0.0   4:46.58 kjournald
>
>  5066 nagios    20   0 23336  12m 1328 S    1  0.6  18:21.65 nagios
>
>
>
> -          One core issue we see other than general slowness is some of
> cgi’s just time out.  We have some people that still like the old
> statusmap.cgi but the full map never renders and the CPU spikes at 100%.
>
>
>
> -          Also on the new Events View we always get script time out
> errors in the browser and the load time of events is pretty slow.
>
>
>
> -          Also I see a fair number of timeout errors in the ospview log
>
>
>
> [2010/01/20 13:56:46] [exec_and_log] [WARN] ssh_exchange_identification:
> Timeout waiting for version information.
>
> [2010/01/20 15:32:22] [import_ndologsd] [WARN] Import of 1264019531.129820,
> size=2685022, took 11.43 seconds > 5 seconds
>
> [2010/01/20 15:33:00] [import_ndologsd] [WARN] Import of 1264019546.119956,
> size=13666, took 34.00 seconds > 5 seconds
>
> [2010/01/20 15:36:15] [import_ndologsd] [WARN] Import of 1264019759.068638,
> size=2692963, took 15.83 seconds > 5 seconds
>
> [2010/01/20 15:36:45] [import_ndologsd] [WARN] Import of 1264019774.998388,
> size=18311, took 29.89 seconds > 5 seconds
>
> [2010/01/21 09:28:08] [import_ndologsd] [WARN] Import of 1264084077.245904,
> size=2696437, took 11.33 seconds > 5 seconds
>
> [2010/01/21 09:28:46] [import_ndologsd] [WARN] Import of 1264084092.143017,
> size=8507, took 34.52 seconds > 5 seconds
>
>
>
>
>
> I’m looking for ideas on what the core bottleneck might be? I could add
> more memory to the server, I could move MySQL to a different server, maybe
> move some files to a RAM disk?
>
> I’m willing to make upgrades where needed I just want to make sure I use
> resources wisely..
>
> Thanks for any advice you all may have.
>
>
>
> James Whittington
>
> VC3, Inc.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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