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Question #170527 on Graphite changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/170527

    Status: Open => Answered

cbrinley proposed the following answer:
Hey Dyna,
Didn't want to leave you hanging out there without some feedback.
I definitely want to help look into this but I am going to be pretty tied up
today with my day job :). I'll try to review this info later in the evening
and see where we can go from here.

Thanks for the in depth response!
regards,

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Dyna
<question170527@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Question #170527 on Graphite changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/170527
>
> Dyna gave more information on the question:
> Ah forgot a few things:
>
> >Are you able to rate limit the sending process or generally what level of
> >control do you have over this process?
>
> I've total control of that one, later on when we swith to feed live data
> I assume it will be less of control.  But this is just a test, it's easy
> to import data.
>
> >If your ability to modify this sending process is limited, do you have
> >access to extract and format the data outside of the sending process?
>
> Yes I can limit it, just put a wait stage and I can say send 10 data
> points evey minute, but that would really cut the mustard.
>
> >What are your acceptable levels of utilization of memory/CPU/IO?
> Well I don't expec the process to eat all my mem. If so I don't fancy
> creating swap mem since the only thing that will happen is that the box will
> start to swap and come to a crawl.  A cach is a-ok but you really need to be
> able to set it level say 50% of the RAM.  It's should be an abolute priority
> to flush write data to disk as fast as possible, when you start getting
> close to your limit. Submitting eight datapoints a second from one server
> should not use 99% of the CPU, rather just a few%.  When you start feeding
> data from 100 servers, then you I could see util of mem and cpu being very
> high.
>
> Aprox how many total data points per metric do you wish to import?
> It's as said eight datapoints every five minutes for five years..
>
> Cheers Dyna
>
> PS: Sorry for my typos it's not easy to type with a big bandage..
>
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