It's likely that you have some system that is not finishing within the period of 5 minutes.  Also you have only a single thread of the poller running.  Try this:

*/10 * * * *   root    /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 4 >> /dev/null 2>&1

Replacing the "1" with "4", or you might try 2 and see where that gets you.  Further to see which devices are taking a long time check the polling stats.  Click on the globe in the menu then "Polling Information".  Scroll down the list to see which of your devices is taking the longest.  

Lastly, you may want to add a setting to you config.php to set the max-reps for snmpbulkwalk:
$config['snmp']['max-rep'] = 5;         // allow use of -Cr in snmpbulkwalk vastly increasing walk speed

Again, start low and move up.  You might want to try manually polling the slow device from the cli and playing with that number to find your optimal setting.

I just went through the same issue and the combination of these things resolved my problems.

Hope that helps!

--chip


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Jerico Rubion <jrubion@77soft.com> wrote:
Hi,

I'm having a problem with the graphs of all my devices in observium (screenshots attached). 
What is the advisable crontab settings should I use given the list of devices I am polling? for the list of devices it is in attachment 1


Here are the details of my environment.

Observium 0.13.7.4172
Apache 2.2.15 (CentOS)
PHP 5.3.3
MySQL 5.1.69
RRDtool 1.3.8

Crontab settings:
*/10 * * * *   root    /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 1 >> /dev/null 2>&1
*/10 * * * *   root    /opt/observium/poller.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1

Recent output of TOP:
top - 00:44:01 up 1 day, 18:35,  1 user,  load average: 2.89, 2.26, 2.24
Tasks: 187 total,   5 running, 182 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 13.1%us, 65.9%sy,  0.0%ni, 20.5%id,  0.2%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   5059868k total,   905692k used,  4154176k free,   153836k buffers
Swap:  4161528k total,        0k used,  4161528k free,   481076k cached

List of my devices


Snapshot of one linux mail server


Snapshot of network switch device




Best Regards,
Jerico M. Rubion



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