[Orca-users] Orca and Large Systems

[Mark Goldenberg]

Thanks I will try the orcallator.cfg changes on Monday or Tuesday and 
let you know.

What sort of data could I collect for you?  I could also be willing to 
send you a complete set of the raw orcallator.se data if you would like.

Mark G.
On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 12:57  PM, Blair Zajac wrote:

> Mark Goldenberg wrote:
>>
>> I just finished installing Orca into a new production environment.  
>> The
>> environment is made up of 30+ systems range from Sun Fire 15000 to
>> Netra T1 105's.  I have an HDS 9960 attached to the Sun Fire 15000 and
>> Sun Fire 4800 with over 200+ LUNs.  I'm running Orca on a dual 750MHz
>> Sun Fire 280R.
>>
>> The 280R is constantly running a 43% User CPU usage after installing
>> Orca.  I have the orcallator.se script set to collect data every
>> 600secs on each system.  And I'm using an rsync script to move the
>> collected data to the 280R every 5mins.  Orca's HTML pages are running
>> between 10-12mins behind.
>>
>> The heavy load appears to be Orca processing the disk information from
>> two SF15k domains and a SF4800.  When you have this many disk devices
>> I'm not sure how useful the graphs are.  Can I simply comment out the
>> disk sections of the orcallator.cfg file to shutdown this processing?
>
> Yes.
>
>> Or can I turn it off on a system by system basis by editing the
>> orcallator.se script?
>
> You could do this also, but commenting out the disk sections in
> orcallator.cfg would probably be more effective.
>
>> Does anyone on this list have any suggestions?
>> I would like to keep Orca as real time as I possible.  I'm currently
>> trying to use the Orca output to assist with troubleshooting
>> performance problems with a new project.
>
> It would be great if I could get some profile data from Orca describing
> where it is spending most of its time.  This would help in optimizing
> Orca.
>
> Let us know how these changes help.
>
> Best,
> Blair
>
> -- 
> Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
> Plots of your system's performance - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/