[jim at meyering.net: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#358178: x86_64: avoid `Size... > POSIX-guaranteed...' warning]

[Andreas Ericsson]

Jason Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:42:33AM -0600, Ethan Galstad wrote:
> 
>>1.  Plugin output is written to a temp file
> 
> Won't this be a lot of overhead for large installations? I'm
> imagine 10K+ services on a few minutes check interval -- that's
> going to be a lot of temp file creations and destructions. It
> could be placed on a RAM disk to make it faster I suppose, but I
> am wondering if some other mechanism would scale better.
> 

I'm working on a socket-based solution. I'm afraid it will involve 
rather major changes, but the reaping should be done instantaneously so 
the limit should then be whatever receive-buffers are set to for sockets 
(currently 128KB by default on FC4, although it can be raised using 
setsockopt(2)).

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