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

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:48:34PM +0000, Gildas Le Nadan wrote:
> Henrik Stoerner wrote:

> >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?

The server is an oldish Sun E220 with two new 72 GB SCSI disks, 10K rpms.

> 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.

I have about 25000 RRD files :-) That's about 80 updates every second.


Regards,
Henrik