[hobbit] Hobbit Server performance

Larry Barber lebarber at gmail.com
Wed Aug 29 23:29:23 CEST 2007


1. Linux tends to gobble up whatever memory thats not being used for buffers
and cache, so on Linux boxes using nearly 100% of memory is normal. Use the
"actual" reading to get the memory that is being used not including caching
and buffers.

2. is normal, Hobbit is very network intensive.

On the bb-test results, it looks like your DNS lookups are a little slow and
your ping tests are taking a little longer than I would consider normal. I
am running Hobbit on similar hardware as yours, monitoring over 600 hosts
and have similar times for the DNS and ping.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On 8/29/07, Jeff Newman <jeffnewman75 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> Have been taking a look at my hobbit server for the past week or so.
> Wanted to ask a couple things.
>
> The server is a DL360 G3 with two 3ghz processors and 2gb of RAM. It does
> only
> hobbit and cricket (10 or so routers, so not a huge hit)
>
> I've noticed the following two things:
>
> #1. I am constantly using 100% of my physical ram (no swap really)
>
> Mem:   2075040k total,  2051928k used,    23112k free,    52172k buffers
> Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,  1744168k cached
>
> is this normal? Not sure how to tell which process specifically is
> eating up the most RAM.
>
> #2. I am consistantly running with 2-300 ports in TIME_WAIT involving port
> 1984
>
> # netstat -an | grep TIME | grep 1984 | wc -l
> 253
>
> Im not sure if this is normal either, nor am I sure if it is bad or
> not? Here is the output from some of the "bb" buttons at the top of my
> hobbit page. If anything stands out, any help would be apprieciated.
> If I can provide any other info, let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
> bbtest-net version 4.2.0
> SSL library : OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003
> LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20213
>
> Statistics:
> Hosts total           :      137
> Hosts with no tests   :        0
> Total test count      :      141
> Status messages       :      141
> Alert status msgs     :        0
> Transmissions         :        4
>
> DNS statistics:
> # hostnames resolved  :      138
> # succesful           :      134
> # failed              :        4
> # calls to dnsresolve :      141
>
> TCP test statistics:
> # TCP tests total     :        4
> # HTTP tests          :        2
> # Simple TCP tests    :        2
> # Connection attempts :        4
> # bytes written       :      272
> # bytes read          :     6108
>
>
> TIME SPENT
>
> Event                                            Starttime          Duration
> bbtest-net startup                       1188421844.836442
> -
> Service definitions loaded               1188421844.837799
> 0.001357
> Tests loaded                             1188421844.860329
> 0.022530
> DNS lookups completed                    1188421854.099983
> 9.239654
> Test engine setup completed              1188421854.101787
> 0.001804
> TCP tests completed                      1188421854.249955
> 0.148168
> PING test completed (137 hosts)          1188421867.657468
> 13.407513
> PING test results sent                   1188421867.659863
> 0.002395
> Test result collection completed         1188421867.659878
> 0.000015
> LDAP test engine setup completed         1188421867.659880
> 0.000002
> LDAP tests executed                      1188421867.659882
> 0.000002
> LDAP tests result collection completed   1188421867.659883
> 0.000001
> Test results transmitted                 1188421867.660531
> 0.000648
> bbtest-net completed                     1188421867.662248
> 0.001717
> TIME TOTAL
> 22.825806
>
>
> bbgen for Hobbit version 4.2.0
>
> Statistics:
> Hosts               :   243
> Status messages     :  1255
> Purple messages     :     0
> Pages               :    22
>
>
> TIME SPENT
>
> Event                                            Starttime          Duration
> Startup                                  1188421967.748593
> -
> Load links done                          1188421967.748887
> 0.000294
> Load bbhosts done                        1188421967.752720
> 0.003833
> ACK removal done                         1188421967.752787
> 0.000067
> Load STATE done                          1188421967.772438
> 0.019651
> Color calculation done                   1188421967.772690
> 0.000252
> Hobbit pagegen start                     1188421967.772717
> 0.000027
> Hobbit pagegen done                      1188421967.794090
> 0.021373
> BB2 generation done                      1188421967.800862
> 0.006772
> BBNK generation done                     1188421967.801386
> 0.000524
> Summary transmission done                1188421967.801388
> 0.000002
> Run completed                            1188421967.801389
> 0.000001
> TIME TOTAL
> 0.052796
>
>
> Statistics for Hobbit daemon
> Up since 29-Aug-2007 13:49:58 (0 days, 02:20:00)
>
> Incoming messages      :     152683
> - status               :      97745
> - combo                :      16461
> - page                 :         10
> - summary              :          0
> - data                 :      22090
> - client               :      16205
> - notes                :          0
> - enable               :          0
> - disable              :          0
> - ack                  :          0
> - config               :          0
> - query                :          0
> - hobbitdboard         :        140
> - hobbitdlog           :          4
> - drop                 :          0
> - rename               :          0
> - dummy                :         28
> - ping                 :          0
> - notify               :          0
> - schedule             :          0
> - download             :          0
> - Bogus/Timeouts       :          0
> Incoming messages/sec  :         17 (average last 300 seconds)
>
> status channel messages:      97839 (1 readers)
> stachg channel messages:       1113 (1 readers)
> page   channel messages:        293 (1 readers)
> data   channel messages:      22090 (1 readers)
> notes  channel messages:          0 (0 readers)
> enadis channel messages:          0 (0 readers)
> client channel messages:      16195 (1 readers)
> clichg channel messages:          0 (1 readers)
>
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