[rrd-developers] Re: How to get the most performance when using lots of RRD files

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:19:01AM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

> I've been in a similar situation myself, doing 20-30 sec updates on 50k+ 
> RRD files. 

[...]

> The big daddy of performance suck is then going to be, opening, closing, 
> and seeking the right spot in the files every time.

Have you considered saving up updates and do them (say) 10 at a time?

Sure, this is going to be a problem for that one user that happens
to want to see the data of the past few minutes.  But it would save
you much disk access, wouldn't it?

-- 
Alex van den Bogaerdt
http://www.vandenbogaerdt.nl/rrdtool/

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