[57north-discuss] Programmer required

2014-07-29 Thread Noodle
Hi folks! I'm looking for someone who is good at programming to rewrite some code for me! I currently have Observium running at work and it is taking ages to poll all our devices. The poller is currently written in php. Our Cacti reduced it's poll time from over 300s to 20s when we changed from

Re: [57north-discuss] Programmer required

2014-07-29 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014, at 10:38 AM, Noodle wrote: So basically I'd like the poller.php re-written in C, (or just something better) or if anyone wants to look at the php to see if they can speed it up I can pass the files along! I'd recommend against writing networking stuff in C unless you

Re: [57north-discuss] Programmer required

2014-07-29 Thread Edward Watson
Would be interesting to see what kind of improvement Facebook's JIT php compiller 'HipHop' can make. Whether you'd want FB-sponsered binaries on your production system is another matter o/c. Cheers, Ed ___ 57north-discuss mailing list

Re: [57north-discuss] Programmer required

2014-07-29 Thread Tom Jones
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:38:27AM +0100, Noodle wrote: I currently have Observium running at work and it is taking ages to poll all our devices. The poller is currently written in php. Our Cacti reduced it's poll time from over 300s to 20s when we changed from its default poller to spine

Re: [57north-discuss] Programmer required

2014-07-29 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:10:22AM +0100, Robert McWilliam wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2014, at 10:38 AM, Noodle wrote: So basically I'd like the poller.php re-written in C, (or just something better) or if anyone wants to look at the php to see if they can speed it up I can pass the files along!

Re: [57north-discuss] Programmer required

2014-07-29 Thread Tony Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/07/14 13:46, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: [...] Having written mass survey tools where lots of connections get constructed and torn down, I can say that C is *vastly* more efficient than Python and other interpreted languages. Hi, Iain. I think