[collectd] Collectd and load average

[Valentino Volonghi]

On Apr 23, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Florian Forster wrote:

>> In the meantime I changed the value of CacheTimeout and CacheFlush to
>> be closed to each other like this:
>>
>> <Plugin rrdtool>
>> 	DataDir "/opt/collectd/var/lib/collectd/rrd"
>> 	CacheTimeout 450
>> 	CacheFlush   900
>> </Plugin>
>
> I don't think `CacheFlush' is involved in this. Setting it to 900
> seconds is very likely a unnecessarily low value.

It was in the defaults of the 4.6.0, I'll up that.

> If your load is related to writing RRD files (how many do you have of
> those?), you should try setting the `WritesPerSecond' option.  
> Setting it
> to `10' will mean that writing 300 RRD files will take 30 seconds, but
> you shouldn't be able to see *any* problem in the load then ;)


Each machine monitor only itself. There are 13 plugins installed (those
in the first mail) and I suppose those are the rrd files that it's  
writing.

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Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone
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