Hi Tobi and Alex Thanks for the advice, I think I will go down the route of running several updates to a single file and see how much I can speed things up by. My polling interval is 60 seconds so I'm thinking updating the rrd files every 10 minutes.
Thanks once again for the help. Richard > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tobias Oetiker > Sent: 06 September 2006 16:29 > To: Richard Burton > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: [rrd-users] Re: Multi threaded Perl scripts using RRDTool > > Hi Richard, > > note that rrd updates are normally io-bound. running several > updates in parallel does not help it can even make things worse ... > > adding faster disk and more memory will help ... also rescheduling > the updates, so that you can do several updates to a single rrd > file will help to. > > cheers > tobi > > > -- > Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten > http://tobi.oetiker.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++41 62 213 9902 > -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-users WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
