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The ndoutils were not running on Fedora and I catch a bug that has
already been fixed in 1.3.1.<br>
Yes, it is NDOUTILS and yes, it is resource hungry this fella.<br>
I've already patched nagios my self to write log status change
information directly to mysql, but the broker is more complete, as it
imports all the configurations into the DB.<br>
As Nagios 3 will have its interface problably based on the
database, it would be nice to try and boost performance on the broker,
as it will be integrated into nagios 3.0.<br>
Thanks Andreas, and indeed it is Friday. :)<br>
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[]s.<br>
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Andreas Ericsson wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid44244DB5.8070909@op5.se" type="cite">Alessandro
Ren wrote:
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I've recently installed the broker in my nagios running in Fedora
Core 3 after having solved that null pointer bug
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(Assuming you mean NULL pointer bug (nul is the end of a string, i.e.
'\0', NULL is (void *)0 on any sane system) What bug is this? I haven't
heard of it, and given the amount of modules (well, three, but I think
that qualifies as "many" given the recentness of the broker interface).
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<blockquote type="cite">and I'd like to share some performance
information with the list to see if my server is running as expected
and exchange some code change idea to boost performance.
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Attached there are five graphs with informations from the system and
nagios it self.
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My HW is a P4 2.8Mhz, Sata 80GB and 1GB of memory. This Nagios has
2500 services beeing monitored, besides nagios is running with
perfparse and storing the data directly in the mysql database,
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I assume you mean through NDO-utils here, since Nagios 2 can't store
data directly to any database and 1.x doesn't have broker support.
We've also experienced huge performance issues with ndo-utils. We're
investigating further. Perhaps we'll be writing our own utility for
storing to database (using loadfiles for history and UPDATE's for
current state).
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<blockquote type="cite">we have also Nisca collecting network
statistics and it has already 20 milion records in its database.
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I'm worrying a little about the HW requirements for bigger setups
with the broker and what could we do to boost performance.
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The main problem is that ndoutils does an asprintf(3) for each event
that comes in (asprintf is very slow, but very convenient). Reading the
glibc sources, this means that there's at least two malloc()'s and one
free() for each event that carries a string (i.e. baaaad for
performance).
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<blockquote type="cite"> I've changed the perfparse code a little
so it does not save all the performance data in on table, but it
divides per host, each host has its own table where all the performance
data for all services are stored there, so the tables are much smaller
than one big table, I wonder if this could not be done with the broker,
for long term storage, some tables can get very large.
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</blockquote>
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I think the solution is to rotate the data to disk every once in a
while and have a file-parser to use with data older than whatever the
rotation interval is.
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<blockquote type="cite"> Just sharing some though with the list to
exchange some ideas.
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</blockquote>
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Good man, that fella! (sorry, I'm a bit tipsy today, it being friday
and all).
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