Twitter is releasing a high volume metrics collection store based on cassandra as open source soon - if you will be scaling big, might be worth looking into.
On 2/19/11, Max <perld...@webwizarddesign.com> wrote: > Even with rrdcached, the I/O from many RRD files being updated often > will hammer the I/O subsydtem of most hosts :) > > We have a host with around 50k RRD data files and rrdcached running, > most are updated every 5 mins, some every minute (Nagios + PNP) - with > RAID 10 and 10k rpm disks the io wait on the system hangs out at about > 15-20 pct, while load hangs around 1-2. > > I like rrd a lot but scaling it is hard. > > Max > > On 2/19/11, Rene Skjoldmose <rene.skjoldm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2011-02-18 22:03, Max Pierson wrote: >>> Nothing at all :) My problem is with rrdtool. It doesn't scale for >>> this >>> project. I was looking into GNUplot, but wanted to see what else was out >>> there as well. >> Is scaling of rrdtool still a problem for you with rrdcached? >> http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdcached.en.html >> >> Cheers, >> René >> >> >