[ale] Virtualization

[Jim Kinney]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Jeremy T. Bouse <jeremy.bouse at undergrid.net>
>        I've been making use of a dual quad-core server with ample amounts of
> RAM using Xen to actually improve the performance of a monitoring
> platform. Running without virtualization the system was actually bored
> but yet not performing as efficiently as it should have given the
> server's resources. Rebuilt using Xen and putting my monitoring pollers
> into VMs I got serious performance gains by splitting the load and
> finally got the server to fully utilize it's resources.
>

Sounds like the polling process is very serialized. Perhaps a rewrite
of the polling process to be a parallel process would be a good method
here. Multicast poll request with an IP address key for reply delay to
avoid collector bottleneck.
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James P. Kinney III