[afnog] real time graph on linux

Phil Regnauld regnauld at x0.dk
Mon Oct 29 14:38:17 UTC 2007


eddy at terracom.rw (eddy) writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I have used cacti in the past but it is generally (or it is by default)
> just doing it every 5 min (300 sec) and it gives average data.
> The stg can show info every 1 sec and that is what I was looking for.
> I had never changed that 300 sec to 1 sec but maybe someone has.
> Was it successful?

	If you want to kill your router's performance, 1 sec will do that :)

	The more often you poll, the more you load your supervisor module
	(or the main CPU in smaller equipment with non-hardware forwarding).

	1 minute is the lower limit.  Anything else, and you want to be
	using netflow, not SNMP.



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