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havoc1942 · Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 11

Cacti Server:
Fedora Core 2
Quad PIII 700MHz XEON w/ 4GB MEM
load average: 0.54, 1.76, 2.26

08/01/2005 03:41:52 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 111.9926 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 3, Threads: 30, Hosts: 377, Hosts/Process: 126, Data Sources 40167, RRDs Processed 24743

MySQL Server:
Solaris 8
Quad Sun 440MHz w/ 8GB MEM
load averages: 0.48, 0.24, 0.24

Threads: 1 Questions: 12480572 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 624 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 63 Queries per second avg: 242.468

sohailb · Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 17

I had to throw some numbers in on this thread. Although I do not use cmd.php anymore due to the size of my install, I did not see anyone with such large numbers of DS's and RRD's. Here goes:

Cacti Server:
Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 4
Quad Intel Xeon 3GHz w/ 4GB RAM

08/04/2005 05:15:45 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 45.2177 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 6, Threads: 20, Hosts: 212, Hosts/Process: 36, Data Sources 18348, RRDs Processed 9576

This box does nothing but Cacti and Mysql just for Cacti. The stats above include devices around all of Europe, North America, and South America. I still have to add devices in Asia, Africa, and Australia.

-sohailb

garybob · Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 3

08/05/2005 04:07:50 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 170.0071 s, Method: cmd.php, Processes: 15, Threads: N/A, Hosts: 207, Hosts/Process: 14

08/05/2005 10:45:24 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 22.7678 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 5, Threads: 10, Hosts: 207, Hosts/Process: 42

Mainly polling routers with frame relay interfaces; and gathering ping statistics and cpu usage.

841 data sources.

Very amazed at the reduction in time!

PW · Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 8

08/16/2005 04:15:18 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 16.4903 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 2, Threads: 45, Hosts: 156, Hosts/Process: 78, Data Sources 11722, RRDs Processed 4695

White Box Enterprise Linux release 4 (manifestdestiny)
Intel Xeon 3.4Ghz
4GB Mem
120GB HD

I will add more hosts soon.

CPF · Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Posts: 25

We get some excellent results using Cactid on Win2K:

08/28/2005 02:25:20 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 20.5758 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 16, Threads: 4, Hosts: 91, Hosts/Process: 6, Data Sources 1630, RRDs Processed 1055
08/28/2005 02:20:17 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 16.8528 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 16, Threads: 4, Hosts: 91, Hosts/Process: 6, Data Sources 1630, RRDs Processed 1055
08/28/2005 02:15:20 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 20.6418 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 16, Threads: 4, Hosts: 91, Hosts/Process: 6, Data Sources 1630, RRDs Processed 1055
08/28/2005 02:10:21 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 20.7185 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 16, Threads: 4, Hosts: 91, Hosts/Process: 6, Data Sources 1630, RRDs Processed 1055
08/28/2005 02:05:16 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 16.6499 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 16, Threads: 4, Hosts: 91, Hosts/Process: 6, Data Sources 1630, RRDs Processed 1055

This is using:

cacti 0.8.6f
cactid 0.8.6e
rrdtool 1.0.49
php 5.0.4
mysql 4.1.10 (InnoDB)
net-snmp 5.2.1-1

Running on:

Windows 2000 SP4
Dell PowerEdge 1750
2 x Xeon 3.2Ghz
2GB RAM

(The server also does a few other tasks, hence the stupidly high spec).

Sorry that I can't provide any comparison for cmd.php as we stopped using it almost immediately.

TheWitness · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 3:12 pm Post subject:

Ok, more progress. Old beater machine:

Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Apache 2.0.53
1 GByte RAM
Quad Xeon PIII 550

Time: 50.9740 s, Method: cactid, Processes:4, Threads:25, Hosts: 265, Hosts/Process: 67, DataSources:12159, RRDsProcessed:5375
Time: 54.6079 s, Method: cactid, Processes:4, Threads:25, Hosts: 265, Hosts/Process: 67, DataSources:12159, RRDsProcessed:5362
Time: 50.0779 s, Method: cactid, Processes:4, Threads:25, Hosts: 265, Hosts/Process: 67, DataSources:12159, RRDsProcessed:5375
Time: 54.9045 s, Method: cactid, Processes:4, Threads:25, Hosts: 265, Hosts/Process: 67, DataSources:12159, RRDsProcessed:5375
Time: 53.0692 s, Method: cactid, Processes:4, Threads:25, Hosts: 265, Hosts/Process: 67, DataSources:12159, RRDsProcessed:5375
Time: 55.8062 s, Method: cactid, Processes:4, Threads:25, Hosts: 265, Hosts/Process: 67, DataSources:12159, RRDsProcessed:5375
Time: 51.2121 s, Method: cactid, Processes:4, Threads:25, Hosts: 265, Hosts/Process: 67, DataSources:12159, RRDsProcessed:5375

About to upgrade to Quad PIV 3.16GHz Xeon's

TheWitness

Oh, also

MACTRACK STATS: Time:3621.0926 ConcurrentProcesses:15 Devices:1462

A little add-on I am working on

MagnaChef · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 12:34 pm Post subject:

Someone has probably done this before, but it would be cool if the polling time was incorporated into the localhost template. That way you can see the trend of your polling time.

gandalf · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 2:06 pm Post subject:

Frances · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:14 pm Post subject:

P4 2.8Ghz, 1GB RAM, running CentOS 4.0 (RHEL clone.)

09/15/2005 11:55:01 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Time: 107.3813 s, Theads: N/A, Hosts: 47

09/15/2005 12:12:19 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:18.2367 Method:cactid Processes:3 Threads:9 Hosts:48 HostsPerProcess:16 DataSources:2332 RRDsProcessed:1087

Darwin · Joined: 27 May 2002 Posts: 27 Location: Montreal, QC

Hmmm.. Wow?

Going from 0.8.6f to 0.8.6g...

Before:

09/15/2005 03:02:14 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 133.7928 s, Method: cactid, Processes: 4, Threads: 4, Hosts: 117, Hosts/Process: 30, Da
ta Sources 3811, RRDs Processed 1546

After:

09/15/2005 03:10:24 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:23.8914 Method:cactid Processes:4 Threads:4 Hosts:117 HostsPerProcess:30 DataSources:208
3 RRDsProcessed:1404

Very nice... Good stuff.

TheWitness · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:07 pm Post subject:

Darwin,

Were you referring to Cactid 0.8.6f?

TheWitness

Darwin · Joined: 27 May 2002 Posts: 27 Location: Montreal, QC

No, not even. The only thing I did was change from cacti 0.8.6f to cacti 0.8.6g.

Still using cactid 0.8.6e.

I'm just surprised by the improvement in the time it took to process everything, from 120s to 22s? Amazing.

ScOp3 · Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:44 am Post subject:

Darwin · Joined: 27 May 2002 Posts: 27 Location: Montreal, QC

Yikes, my bad.. Totally missed that..

Hmm, which leads me to wonder why the number of data sources processed has gone down and which ones are missing. Strange. Time to investigate I suppose.

Mikkel · Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 32

Cacti 0.8.6g with cactid 0.8.6e on Windows 2000 Server with SP4, running on HP Proliant DL380 server with 2 x Xeon HT 3,2 GHz and 1 GB RAM.

Machine is also running MRTG, that tends to interfere with Cacti so I do believe the values below could be better if the machine was dedicated.

SYSTEM STATS: Time:96.1151 Method:cmd.php Processes:8 Threads:N/A Hosts:127 HostsPerProcess:16 DataSources:13667 RRDsProcessed:5747
SYSTEM STATS: Time:38.1848 Method:cactid Processes:8 Threads:24 Hosts:127 HostsPerProcess:16 DataSources:13667 RRDsProcessed:5747