Thanks for the reponses, nice to see we have an active community here. There were enough hints here for me figure out I have a BIG disk I/O issue.
The box I am using is also collecting several gig of syslog a day, however this doesn't seem to be a problem since the cpu and memory load is LOW when vmware is not running. It's only when vmware is fired up that problems begin. When zenoss is started cpu jumps to 100%. Most of that is shown by 'top' to be system cpu usage. The interrupt load goes above 2.0. My understanding is that these are good signs of load on the hard drive. I wanted to isolate what part of zenoss was causing the problem so first I followed Eric's suggestion and added 'RouteMap' to the ignored plugins. No change, but suspecting it was still to blame I started with a fresh virtual machine and modified the routers class before adding my devices. This seemed to fix the immediate problem. Now when zenoss is started the first couple of minutes are 100% cpu but then it settles down. Also when devices are added cpu naturally jumps but then it settles down again. I conclude the RouteMap plugin needs some work! Eric are there any details available on what this plugin is doing in the backgroun? However I still find the system load quite excessive and would like to find out if this is just a feature of vmware itself or if I need to source another hard drive for when I install zenoss natively. What to other people see in top when discovering devices on a similar machine? (Dell PowerEdge 2650, 2x 2.4GHz xeons, 1Gb Ram, 1x160Gb HD) cheers, Ben On 3/27/07, kerneld <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
This article is nagios specific i.e there could be issues with parallelism on nagios, or on that specific platform. Zenoss doesn't seem to have any problems with having 2 virtual processors, and will run alot slower with a single CPU. One thing I forgot to mention is that on my VM instance, I have a bond interface that is configured using 802.3ad . the interface spans 4 gbit NICs and the corresponding ports on the switch are configured in an etherchannel group. this lowers CPU utilization and reduces IO wait. you may want to consider similar things. ------------------------ Mohamed Hussein -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=4897#4897 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
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