Is there anyone else out there polling Arista switches? Has anyone else out there noticed any performance issues with polling the fdb-tables module recently?
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Mayfield Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 5:54 PM To: Observium Network Observation System observium@observium.org Subject: Re: [Observium] 'Duplicate entry' issues on vlans_fdb
OK, I picked one of the Arista switches at random and collected the poller performance stats both with and without fdb-table enabled. Attaching screenshots.
Thanks
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 4:48 PM To: observium@observium.orgmailto:observium@observium.org Subject: Re: [Observium] 'Duplicate entry' issues on vlans_fdb
You also want the device performance for one of these arista devices, where you'll see which module is taking the time.
It's on the right hand side of the device navbar.
adam.
On 13/08/2015 22:46:05, Aaron Mayfield <amayfield@artisaninfrastructure.commailto:amayfield@artisaninfrastructure.com> wrote: Adam, you also asked for screenshots of the polling performance page. My apologies for taking so long to grab these.
This kind of confirms my suspicion that it is my Arista devices that are taking longer, they have the “swa” in the hostname.
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 3:58 AM To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.orgmailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] 'Duplicate entry' issues on vlans_fdb
Hi Aaron,
Can you tell which device is taking a long time?
You can check the poller performance page from the "globe" menu, and the device performance tab (the "clock" icon on the right of the device navbar)
Screenshots of those might help :)
Thanks, Adam.
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On 12 August 2015 7:50:28 am Aaron Mayfield <amayfield@artisaninfrastructure.commailto:amayfield@artisaninfrastructure.com> wrote: Yeah this seems to be a performance issue of some type and the fdb table stuff seems like a side effect. I’m scratching my head as to why it worked fine before the upgrade. In fact, here is the observium.log output before/after the upgrade:
[2015/08/11 10:42:14 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(23384): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 131 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 10:47:12 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(3121): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 131 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 10:52:13 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(15078): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 132 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 10:57:13 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(27618): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 131 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:02:14 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(7205): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 132 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:07:14 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(19611): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 132 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:12:12 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(31781): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 131 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:17:15 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(11383): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 133 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:22:15 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(23688): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 133 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:27:14 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(3412): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 133 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:32:10 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(15327): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 128 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:37:14 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(27814): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 132 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:42:13 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(7491): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 132 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:47:13 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(19987): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 131 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:52:15 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(32100): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 133 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:57:14 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(11743): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 133 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 12:02:22 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(23906): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 140 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 12:06:52 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(4395): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 111 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 12:21:24 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(11770): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 683 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 12:38:09 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(17020): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 1388 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 12:48:30 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(26555): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 1708 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 13:06:30 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(2438): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 2487 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 13:12:30 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(9984): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 2548 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 13:31:56 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(19437): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 3414 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 13:40:50 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(25290): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 3647 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 13:55:34 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(956): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 4231 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 14:02:54 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(7354): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 4370 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 14:20:50 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(14288): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 5147 seconds with 8 workers
I did the upgrade and then the poller starts running poorly. Then I see the side effect of the of the duplicate entries with the fdb table because the poller processes are running so slowly they are stacking on top of each other.
So I have some kind of performance issue.
One strange thing, I only have 45 devices I’m polling, yet the port count under the Port menu says I have 44859 ports. That must be a miscalculation of some type or my database is messed up somewhere. Not sure if related or not.
Going to continue to try the poller manually and see if I can figure out where the slowdown is.
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 1:33 AM To: observium@observium.orgmailto:observium@observium.org Subject: Re: [Observium] 'Duplicate entry' issues on vlans_fdb
Man, why didn't I think of this?
This sounds like the problem. I guess something caused your poller processes to get confused, and they ended up running in parallel, not unthinkable when the same part of the poller process runs for so long, 74 seconds for the fdb-table module.
If you don't /really/ need this data, I'd recommend disabling it. It's one of the trade offs we have to make between performance and data.
If you still want the fdb data, you can force that module to be run using a less-often scheduled process in cron like ./poller.php -h all -m fdb-table
Note that this will break whatever graphs (fdb count?) that fdb-table produces, but you'll still have the data in the database.
adam.
On 12/08/2015 07:28:55, Tom Laermans <tom.laermans@powersource.cxmailto:tom.laermans@powersource.cx> wrote: If you're running multiple simultaneous pollers against the same device is not unthinkable they'll all be trying to insert the same data into the table...
Tom
On Aug 12, 2015 8:02 AM, Aaron Mayfield wrote:
Here is the requested output. I had to kill all the other poller processes running on the system to get it to run (they were hosing the CPU). Oddly enough, once I killed all the other processes, I didn’t any problems running it (back to being fast). Also don’t seem to be getting the errors in the db.log when running the poller ‘one-at-a-time’.
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 11:52 PM To: observium@observium.orgmailto:observium@observium.org Subject: Re: [Observium] 'Duplicate entry' issues on vlans_fdb
Hi Aaron,
These seem to be gone from my db.log. Could you send me a ./poller.php -h 54 -m fdb-table -d ?
Thanks,
adam.
On 12/08/2015 05:01:53, Aaron Mayfield wrote:
Just today I updated to the latest and greatest (0.15.8.6882). I was several revisions behind and several database updates were done as a result. After the update, I noticed my poller.php processes started taking all the CPU, started getting gaps in the graphs, etc. I noticed thousands of these entries in db.log:
[2015/08/11 22:01:02 -0500] poller.php(21342): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '54-2083-6ef88537f91f' for key 'dev_vlan_mac'), Query: INSERT INTO `vlans_fdb` (`device_id`,`vlan_id`,`port_id`,`mac_address`,`fdb_status`) VALUES ('54','2083','220115','6ef88537f91f','learned') [2015/08/11 22:01:02 -0500] poller.php(21342): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '54-2084-005056a927c2' for key 'dev_vlan_mac'), Query: INSERT INTO `vlans_fdb` (`device_id`,`vlan_id`,`port_id`,`mac_address`,`fdb_status`) VALUES ('54','2084','220115','005056a927c2','learned') [2015/08/11 22:01:02 -0500] poller.php(21342): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '54-2084-a66aaf0bf4cc' for key 'dev_vlan_mac'), Query: INSERT INTO `vlans_fdb` (`device_id`,`vlan_id`,`port_id`,`mac_address`,`fdb_status`) VALUES ('54','2084','220115','a66aaf0bf4cc','learned') [2015/08/11 22:01:02 -0500] poller.php(21342): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '54-2085-228a3d193c66' for key 'dev_vlan_mac'), Query: INSERT INTO `vlans_fdb` (`device_id`,`vlan_id`,`port_id`,`mac_address`,`fdb_status`) VALUES ('54','2085','220115','228a3d193c66','learned') [2015/08/11 22:01:02 -0500] poller.php(21342): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '54-2086-0ee7c729643b' for key 'dev_vlan_mac'), Query: INSERT INTO `vlans_fdb` (`device_id`,`vlan_id`,`port_id`,`mac_address`,`fdb_status`) VALUES ('54','2086','220115','0ee7c729643b','learned')
If I run a poller process against a switch manually, everything seems to run fine with the exception of the fdb-table module, which is taking over 600 seconds to run.
Here is the schema of my vlans_fdb file:
mysql> show columns from vlans_fdb -> ; +-------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | device_id | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | | | vlan_id | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | | | port_id | int(11) | YES | MUL | NULL | | | mac_address | varchar(32) | NO | PRI | NULL | | | fdb_status | varchar(32) | NO | | NULL | | +-------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> mysql> show index from vlans_fdb -> ; +-----------+------------+--------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+---- ----+--------+------+------------+---------+ | Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation | Cardinality | Sub art | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | +-----------+------------+--------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+---- ----+--------+------+------------+---------+ | vlans_fdb | 0 | dev_vlan_mac | 1 | device_id | A | 15 | ULL | NULL | | BTREE | | | vlans_fdb | 0 | dev_vlan_mac | 2 | vlan_id | A | 18348 | ULL | NULL | | BTREE | | | vlans_fdb | 0 | dev_vlan_mac | 3 | mac_address | A | 128440 | ULL | NULL | | BTREE | | | vlans_fdb | 1 | device_id | 1 | device_id | A | 78 | ULL | NULL | | BTREE | | | vlans_fdb | 1 | port_id | 1 | port_id | A | 431 | ULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | +-----------+------------+--------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+---- ----+--------+------+------------+---------+ 5 rows in set (0.04 sec)
mysql>
Does my table structure look right? I see someone else on the list has had this same issue, but there is no indication that this should be a problem in the latest version.
What should I check? Thanks for any help.
Aaron Mayfield Cloud Expert Networking Specialist
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