[rrd-developers] Accelerator Daemon

[Scott Brumbaugh]

Hi Florian,

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:52:23AM +0200, Florian Forster wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> 
> thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate it :)
> 
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 02:21:10PM -0700, Scott Brumbaugh wrote:
> > When a large number of rrd updates occur at the same time the
> > filesystem tries to write all updates to disk file at the same time.
> > This slows the system.  I may be missing something but it looks like
> > that will happen with this patch if a client is both writing and
> > reading large numbers of rrd files simultaneously.
> 
> Yes, that's probably right. I didn't expect anyone with such a huge
> number of RRD files to generate graphs periodically/statically instead
> of on demand/dynamically.. Is anyone with a big number of files doing
> that? If so: Why?
> 

Graphing isn't the only use for the data in the rrd files.  For large
networks visually watching graphs for anomalies don't scale well.  At
some point there will just be too many graphs to watch.

Rrdtool allows for automated network monitoring through the rrd_xport
function.  You can readout the current rate estimates and use them to
update filters to do automated monitoring.  For this type of
application it is good to be able to read out the last few rate
estimates quickly after an update.



Scott B