[hobbit] New Hobbit stuff: Scalability and H/A work

[Gildas Le Nadan]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> A couple of weeks ago, I was asked if our Hobbit system at work could
> handle monitoring of one more customer. Of course, I said - no problem.
> Well, there was one gotcha: This customer has 1100+ servers that need 
> to be monitored. Which means my Hobbit installation is about to double 
> in the number of hosts monitored. Hmm ...
> 
> This will be interesting to watch. I am fairly confident that Hobbit can
> handle it, with one exception: The disks on my Hobbit server will be
> overloaded. It already spends about 50% of it's time in I/O wait, so
> doubling the number of hosts with cpu/memory/disk etc. graphs will
> probably crash it.

Strange that I/O seem to be an issue for you. What kind of system do you run the 
hobbit server on?

I have ~3300 rrd files updated here on a blade with an old 40 Gig 5400 2,5" hard 
drive and it is almost idle.

Cheers,
Gildas