Well, as nobody has suggested anything to my problem I guess that
I'm the
only one having this issue. I have managed to find the root cause. The
hobbitd_rrd process was showing to be in "uninterruptible sleep"
state most
of the time with high iowait associated with the CPU it was running
on. I
suspected that the problem may be due to disk IO while updating
rrds for
the 2000 hosts.
I created a tmpfs filesystem and copied the rrd directory into it.
Since
then (48 hours ago) my rrd graphs have been updating continuously.
I do
however need to write back to disk periodically to avoid loss of
data after
a reboot.
This is OK as a temporary fix but I would like to have a permanent
solution. I would like to hear from other hobbit users who have
more than
1000 hosts monitored. What type of servers and disk subsystems are
they
using? Perhaps my problem is to do with RedHat and Dell server
combination.
Perhaps I need to stripe over multiple spindles.
-Naeem
Naeem
Maqsud/SYBASE
To
08/18/2005 05:02 hobbit (at) hswn.dk
PM cc
Subject
hobbit_rrd stops working after
about 1 hour
Hi,
I'm testing out hobbit 4.1.1 for possible migration from big
brother (with
bbgen). I suspected scalability issues with BB as my rrd graphs were
updated intermittently. However, hobbit is exhibiting similar
problems.
After about 1 hr of restarting hobbit, the rrd graphs stop updating
except
for the cpu utilization for the hobbit server itself.
The hobbit server is running RedHat Linux AS 3.0. It has 2 x 2.4
GHz Xeon
processors and 1GB of memory. About 800 servers are sending updates
to the
hobbit server. Another 1200 servers are getting remote tests.
Load average has stayed below 1 most of the time. CPU usage has
been low
with 75% idle. 4 CPUs show up due to hyperthreading and I've
noticed that
after the restart of hobbit server, hobbitd_rrd process stays on
CPU3 with
100% utilization for the one hour that it is busy.
I hope someone can shed some light on this.
Thanks,
Naeem
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