Submit Your CMD.PHP vs. CACTID Metrics Here

kenfury · Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 2

What a change. I ran cmd.php every 60 seconds and I was getting into 40 second range for the scripts to run. Now I am down to 2.3-2.7 seconds with cactid. Quick specs...

Network Devices
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24 Cisco 3600 with 4 interfaces
1 Cisco 7200 with over 40 interfaces
3 Cisco 3550 12 interfaces
5 Cisco 3750 48 interfaces
48 Printers
10 servers (just Eth monitoring)

The Server
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IBM 335
Dual 2.4 Xeon
1 gig ram
U160 SCSI
Fedora Core1
Cactid 8.6d
cmd.php 8.6c

Cmd.php was running in the 2.8 to 3.4 load range for 5 min avg. Now with cactid I am running in the .5 to.7 range. cactid is running 2 threads vs 8 poller process with cmd.php. What a great upgrade.

Mikf · Joined: 13 Aug 2004 Posts: 36 Location: Paris, France

Hello,

here my test :
01/27/2005 07:50:16 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 15.5160 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 8, Threads: 8, Hosts: 162, Hosts/Process: 21
01/27/2005 07:45:17 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 15.1279 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 8, Threads: 8, Hosts: 162, Hosts/Process: 21
01/27/2005 07:40:19 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 17.1653 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 8, Threads: 8, Hosts: 162, Hosts/Process: 21
01/27/2005 07:35:24 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 22.8908 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 8, Threads: 8, Hosts: 162, Hosts/Process: 21
01/27/2005 07:31:17 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 75.8915 s, Method: cmd.php, Processes: 8, Threads: N/A, Hosts: 162, Hosts/Process: 21
01/27/2005 07:25:50 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 49.4887 s, Method: cmd.php, Processes: 8, Threads: N/A, Hosts: 162, Hosts/Process: 21
01/27/2005 07:20:48 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 46.9298 s, Method: cmd.php, Processes: 8, Threads: N/A, Hosts: 162, Hosts/Process: 21
01/27/2005 07:16:00 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 59.3676 s, Method: cmd.php, Processes: 8, Threads: N/A, Hosts: 162, Hosts/Process: 21

for 162 hosts (2829 data sources)
(routers, filers, caches, firewalls, windows, linux, solaris)

IBM Bi-Xeon 2.8Ghz
1G RAM

cacti 0.8.6c
cactid 0.8.6d

edit : new stats
03/02/2005 10:15:56 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 54.2769 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 1, Threads: 64, Hosts: 227, Hosts/Process: 227
03/02/2005 10:11:04 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 63.4464 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 1, Threads: 64, Hosts: 227, Hosts/Process: 227
03/02/2005 10:06:09 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 68.1267 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 1, Threads: 64, Hosts: 227, Hosts/Process: 227
03/02/2005 10:01:19 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 78.2936 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 1, Threads: 64, Hosts: 227, Hosts/Process: 227

TheWitness · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 1:57 pm Post subject:

Hi, here are some production numbers:

Dell PowerEdge 6350
Quad Xenon 550
2 GBytes RAM
(Old Horse)

> 178 Hosts
> 5000 Data Sources
> Mixture of SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 Devices

CMD.PHP
8 Processes, Average: 160 Seconds

CACTID
4 Processes, 8 Threads Each, Average 40 Seconds

Ev · Cacti User Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 104

Sun Ultra 60 (2* USparc 440 Mhz) 1 G ram. Under heavy load (another monitoring program + old rrd).

62 hosts, ~670 data sources.

4* cmd.php - 200..240 sec.
1* cactid * 5 threads - 28..40 sec.

78 hosts with cactid - same time, 30..40 sec.

Can anyone wrote about it's stability of Cactid under Solaris (and under other Unix) ?

gandalf · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:16 am Post subject:

IBM Dual Xeon
RH Linux
Cactid 8.6d
cacti 0.8.6c

About 17 to 18 sec. for cactid, 2 Processes, 8 Threads, 133 Hosts, 1390 rrds. Cactid seems to be about 6 times faster than cmd.php.
The above contains some dozen data sources that are queried using perl scripts parsing html output (apache stats and so on)

aaa111 · Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 3

SYSTEM STATS: Time: 250.9287 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 2, Threads: 2, Hosts: 62, Hosts/Process: 31
# ls -1 rra/ | wc -l
2286

FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #6
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2392.29-MHz 686-class CPU)
real memory = 1073676288 (1023 MB)

TheWitness · Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:58 am Post subject:

aaa111,

Increase your thread count to 10 and repost.

TheWitness

aaa111 · Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 3

Ev · Cacti User Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 104

Mikf · Joined: 13 Aug 2004 Posts: 36 Location: Paris, France

aaa111,

try with /usr/local/share/snmp/mibs empty. (or the good path to the mibs files of net-snmp)

- mikf

carcass · Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 4

P4 2.4 without HyperThreading

cactid one a minute:
03/10/2005 06:01:08 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 7.4417 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 5, Threads: 10, Hosts: 63, Hosts/Process: 13
03/10/2005 06:02:05 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 4.9023 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 5, Threads: 10, Hosts: 63, Hosts/Process: 13
03/10/2005 06:03:05 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 4.8770 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 5, Threads: 10, Hosts: 63, Hosts/Process: 13
03/10/2005 06:04:06 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 5.1839 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 5, Threads: 10, Hosts: 63, Hosts/Process: 13

all devices are cisco catalysts. 1251 rrds.

03/10/2005 06:08:27 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 26.7298 s, Method: cmd.php, Processes: 5, Threads: N/A, Hosts: 63, Hosts/Process: 13
03/10/2005 06:09:25 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 25.7774 s, Method: cmd.php, Processes: 5, Threads: N/A, Hosts: 63, Hosts/Process: 13

turning on 28 ZYXEL dslams:

cactid
03/10/2005 06:18:18 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 17.7232 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 5, Threads: 10, Hosts: 91, Hosts/Process: 19
03/10/2005 06:19:17 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 17.1713 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 5, Threads: 10, Hosts: 91, Hosts/Process: 19

cmd.php
03/10/2005 06:32:55 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 51.0815 s, Method: cmd.php, Processes: 5, Threads: N/A, Hosts: 91, Hosts/Process: 19
03/10/2005 06:33:48 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 47.9127 s, Method: cmd.php, Processes: 5, Threads: N/A, Hosts: 91, Hosts/Process: 19

3000 rrds now

Rossco · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:25 pm Post subject: cacti speeds

Never got cmd.php to work for some reason, but these are my stats using cactid on a dual 2.8Ghz(with Hyperthreading) with 1GB RAM(windows2k).

Majority of these are Cisco routers and switches across 34 sites polling every 5 mins, approx 50 windows boxes. Total of 12,210 seperate rrds/datasources.

3/15/2005 10:11:31 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 91.0645 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 2, Threads: 25, Hosts: 346,Hosts/Process: 173
03/15/2005 10:07:32 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 151.8085 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 2, Threads: 25, Hosts: 346, Hosts/Process: 173
03/15/2005 10:01:39 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 99.5154 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 2, Threads: 25, Hosts: 346, Hosts/Process: 173
03/15/2005 09:56:31 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 90.8879 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 2, Threads: 25, Hosts: 346, Hosts/Process: 173
03/15/2005 09:51:31 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 91.3955 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 2, Threads: 25, Hosts: 346, Hosts/Process: 173

Kind regards
Ross

ssams · Cacti User Joined: 01 Feb 2005 Posts: 65 Location: Texas

1 thread
03/21/2005 01:31:40 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 100.7504 s, Method: cactid, Processes:
1, Threads: 1, Hosts: 90, Hosts/Process: 90

10 threads
03/21/2005 01:35:23 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 22.5106 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 1, Threads: 10, Hosts: 90, Hosts/Process: 90

cmd was failing on max time.

approximately 2000 rras and growing. will probably hit 10000 when i am done.

fmangeant · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 4:26 am Post subject:

Hi all

I changed this morning from Cacti 0.8.6c cmd.php (20 pollers) :

Kap · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 1

04/06/2005 12:12:50 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 50.1300 s, Method: cmd.php, Processes: 4, Threads: N/A, Hosts: 112, Hosts/Process: 29

04/06/2005 12:37:07 PM - CACTID: Poller[0] Time: 7.3960 s, Threads: 4, Hosts: 29

112 Devices
2832 Data Sources