<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>My suggestion is to check very carefully which plugins are really necessary on the clients to reduce the amount of data, for example the plugin to check storage devices will generate a lot of data if you use lvm (you'll get physical devices + device mapping devices).</div><div>When you made some clean up you can drastically reduce the I/O load using CacheTimeout and CacheFlush options of rrdtool plugin on the host which receive all the data, this will make your collectd server to flush rrd on the storage less frequently and reduce the load on the storage devices.</div><div>I hope this will help.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Merry Christmas :)</div><div><br></div><div>Tasslehoff Burrfoot</div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">---</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(153,153,153)"><i>"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."</i></span><br></div>---<br>Public PGP key block at<br><a href="http://tasslehoff.burrfoot.it/url/pgp" target="_blank">http://tasslehoff.burrfoot.it/url/pgp</a></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 at 19:45, George <<a href="mailto:izghitu@gmail.com">izghitu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I am using collectd with the network plugin as a central server for getting stats from many collectd clients. I have 400+ clients and it seems the IO load on the drives is very high.</div><div><br></div><div>Are there any recommendations on how I can optimize the collectd server so it has less impact on the overall server load?</div><div><br></div><div>Please let me know.</div><div>Thanks in advance.</div></div>
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