[mrtg] MRTG with RRDcached tuning

[Mike Mitchell]

I modified 14all.cgi around line 67.  Look for
  ### customize the html pages
and add the line
  $ENV{'RRDCACHED_ADDRESS'} = 'unix:/var/tmp/rrdcached.sock';
just before it.  Replace '/var/tmp/rrdchached.sock' with whatever path to the RRDcached socket you use.

I run rrdcached with only
   -w 5400 -f  21600 -m 666 -j path-to-journal -p path-to-pid -l unix:path-to-socket
and no other options.

I keep my RRD files on a mirrored pair of solid-state drives.  I have ~50,000 RRDs that are updated once an hour, and another ~5,000 that are updated every 5 minutes.  The RRDs that are updated once an hour are very rarely looked at.  RRDcached helps reduce the write cycles on the SSD.

Mike Mitchell
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From: mrtg-bounces+mike.mitchell=sas.com at lists.oetiker.ch [mrtg-bounces+mike.mitchell=sas.com at lists.oetiker.ch] on behalf of Pavel Ruzicka [pavouk at pavouk.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 5:18 AM
To: Steve Shipway
Cc: mrtg at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: Re: [mrtg] MRTG with RRDcached tuning


Hello,



> -s mrtg -m 0660 -l unix:/var/tmp/rrdcached.sock -l mrtg.auckland.ac.nz

> -l localhost -z 60

>

> -p /var/tmp/rrdcached.pid -t 4 -j /u01/rrdtool/journal -b /u01/rrdtool

> -w 1800 -O -a 6



I tried -w 1800 and -z 60, but it still doesn't solve massive pdflush.

I don't understand exactly -z option. I understand from documentation

that when I set -z to 60 seconds, that it set random write delay between 0 and 60 seconds. When I have -w for 1800, that rrdcached writes files to disk in 60 seconds and -w option is not used. Is it true?



> This has had a significant improvement on our previous IO problems.

> For the frontend, you could use Routers2 (which supports rrdcached directly



I can't change easily frontend for historical reasons :-)



> :). However, if you prefer to use 14all, then you can still do this via

>

> rrrdcached, at least if you are using Apache. Just set the

> RRDCACHED_ADDRESS environment variable appropriately in the web server so

> that it is set when the CGI is called, and this will make the 14all calls

> all use rrdcached, where possible.

> <Directory "/u01/www/cgi-bin">

>

> SetEnv RRDCACHED_ADDRESS unix:/var/tmp/rrdcached.sock

>

> </Directory>



I tried it, but it probably doesn't use rrdcached. How can I check it?

I have on graphs white space on the side. It looks like 14all.cgi use not updated rrd file.



> You might want to consider using the trunk version of rrdtool, since this

> has more comprehensive rrdcached support for the various rrdtool functions.



I prefer to use stable version, if it works.



Thank you very much for answers.



Best regards,



Pavel


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