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4 Feb
2016
4 Feb
'16
10:29 a.m.
Couple of things to scale out from my experience:
- move rrd files to SSD-raid - mount /opt/observium/rrd with noatime - get more cpus, preferably the nice 3.8ghz ones as well - find the right balance your poller threading - move to php7
1500 devices is absolutely possible.
Maarten
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On 2/3/16, 11:40 AM, "observium on behalf of Steve Costaras" <observium-bounces@observium.org on behalf of stevecs@chaven.com> wrote:
>
>We currently have ~500 devices/50,000 ports being monitored on a dual
>cpu E5-2643 v0 system. It's currently running around 80% cpu (all
>cores w/ hyper-threading) and on a raid-10 16 drive array (sas 2.5" 10K
>rpm) which averages 1k iops. Most systems are polled in < 5minutes
>(with about 5-10 taking longer as they're fully loaded boxes).
>
>Looking to plan for future growth, I'm trying to see if anyone is
>running larger installations and their performance on a single box in
>trying to gauge if it's worthwhile to spend the $$ to upgrade to a newer
>V3 cpu system, or if we've effectively reached a single-point saturation
>limit and have to deploy distributed.
>
>I.e. do we have anyone here running say 1500 devices or 150,000 -
>200,000 ports on a single system? If so, care to share your specs?
>
>
>Thanks.
>
>Steve
>