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

[Ethan Galstad]

On 22 Mar 2006 at 9:49, 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.
> 
> -Jason Martin
> -- 

Disk I/O doesn't look to be a problem.  I've been doing some testing 
with 2k+ services on a 1.7GHz workstation-class machine with an IDE 
drive and the only limiting factor as I scale things up seems to be 
the CPU.



Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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Email: nagios at nagios.org
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