[Orca-users] Multiple disk space percentage graphs

[Blair Zajac]

On Feb 8, 2006, at 7:17 AM, Tonij T. wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have been experimenting with Orca on and off over the past year  
> and have finally gotten some good trending information over the  
> past few months.  One of the main metrics I am interested in is  
> trending disk space usage.   I have two questions about this feature:
>
> 1)  I am monitoring 12 Sun systems.  For each system on the "Disk  
> Space Percent Usage" page there can be up to 50 (!) links to see  
> the graph.  Some of the larger systems with upwards of 60+ file  
> systems can take up to 5 minutes to populate this page.  Is there a  
> reason this graph behaves this way?
>
> 2) Speaking of the larger systems, when I try to look at the graphs  
> for some of these, there are just so many of them the graph is a  
> clutered mess.  With 10 different shades of blue I really can't  
> tell which file system I am looking at.  Is there a way to resize  
> this graph to make it more readable?
>
> Thanks in advance!

You mentioned in a later note that you're using Orca 0.27.  This has  
a bug where you'll end up with multiple plots of the same type of  
data.  This is most commonly seen with the disk space percentage  
graphs.  If you update to the latest snapshot release r5**, then this  
bug is fixed.

This won't help you with too much data on a single graph though.  You  
should use the solution mentioned by David Michaels to split your  
filesystems into groups.

Regards,
Blair

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