[Cialug] Server Monitoring/Management

[Chris K.]

Colin,

My primary basis for that statement was a dual 1G P3 server with 512M of 
RAM and 1024M of swap monitoring 2 physical devices (about 10-12 
services).  The poor thing began swap usage in about 15 minutes and had 
finally used everything (physical + swap) in about 8 hours.

Keep in mind the Zenoss instances and MySQL DB were on the same server.

Colin Burnett wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2008 6:03 PM, Chris K. <lister at kulish.com> wrote:
>   
>> Looks like Zenoss needs 1.5Ghz process and about 2GB of ram to really
>> function well.  If you've used it for more than a couple devices, would
>> you agree?
>>     
>
> I don't do any sys admin work that needs monitoring but that seems
> like an extremely fine point of Wirth's law:
>
> "Software gets slower, faster than hardware gets faster."
> -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
>
> My first thought was: GOOD GOD!!!!!!  It blows my mind that you need
> that much horsepower to monitor "a couple devices"....
>
> What does it "monitor" enough to warrant 2 GB of ram?  (Seriously.)
>
>
> Colin
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