[94481] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Tue Jan 23 21:37:55 2007
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:24:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Jason LeBlanc <jml@packetpimp.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <45B4BA18.7060504@packetpimp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Jason LeBlanc wrote:
> Anyone thats seen MRTG (simple, static) on a large network realizes that
> decoupling the graphing from the polling is necessary. The disk i/o is
> brutal. Cacti has a slick interface, but also doesn't scale all that well
> for large networks. I prefer RTG, though I haven't seen a nice interface for
> it, yet.
How large did you have to get for cacti to "not scale"? Did you try the
cactid poller [which is much faster than the standard poller]?
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