Re: {bb} BB4 CPU utilization on BBNET/BBDISPLAY/BBPAGER system

[Henrik Storner <henrik-bb@hswn.dk>]

In <84B673E70D068347A2F54A51457E5C270A03D2A5@CINMLVEM05.e2k.ad.ge.com> "Maschino, Shawn (GE Advanced Materials)" <Shawn.Maschino@ge.com> writes:

>            Hi all, I'm running the latest BigBrother version on a
>RedHat 3.0 Enterprise Linux system with 2 CPUs and 1GB of RAM.  I've got
>a pretty basic install, monitoring for conn on about 500 servers with
>the one Linux system being the BBPAGER, BBNET, and BBDISPLAY.  I also
>have a handful of hosts with the client installed and reporting in.

>            What I'm seeing is the very high CPU utilization when BB is
>running, the load average is in the 11-12 range and idle time is always
>0%.  Below is a top output showing this.  I believe this is the reason
>my bb.html web display is only updating about once an hour and it's
>taking quite some time to get through the list of systems.

>I've tried everything from adjusting threads to making the web pages
>dynamic instead of static with no luck.  Does anyone have any
>suggestions on how to reduce the load?  Any tips would be appreciated.

BB's shell scripts don't perform at all well when you move into monitoring 
several hundred boxes.

I had the same problem and ended up writing tools to solve it:

* bbgen - an add-on to BB that replaces the web-generator and network-test
  shell scripts with tools written in C.

* Hobbit - replaces BB completely, the successor to bbgen.


Both available at http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/ - GPL licensed, so
they can be used free of charge.


Regards,
Henrik

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