[rrd-users] Collect on one machine, graph on another

[Simon Hobson]

At the moment I have one machine that both collects network traffic 
data and serves up graphs. We're about to get a network upgrade and I 
want to take the opportunity to split the functions - the graphing is 
"useful", the traffic routing is "essential". I've had a couple of 
problems in the past with the graphing consuming all the VM available 
and almost killing the machine, and I have plans for even more 
complex graphs !

Applying the KISS principal, I was thinking of storing the rrds on 
the gateway, exporting the directory via NFS, and mounting it on the 
web server.

1) Are there any issues with doing this ? Any locking issues between 
updates and reads ?

2) Any better suggestions ?

The main rrd has 512 ds's, with cfs for max and average over 5m, 30m, 
2h, and 12h. Updates are every minute. There are also a number of 
smaller rrds updated at the same time.

Both boxes will be running Debian and rrdtool 1.2.15.