racluster memory usage

[Peter Van Epp]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 05:39:30PM +1200, Russell Fulton wrote:
> HI Folks,
> 	Well, I'm converting some of my collectors over to argus 3.0 and I'm
> having a few problems with replacing ragator with racluster.
> 
> I collect hourly files which are normally around 250MB and I used to run
> these through ragator to collect all the records for flows together.  I
> set a timeout of about 20 minutes in the flows file which kept the
> memory usage bearable.
> 
> Racluster does not appear to have this option so my 250MB file ballons
> to 1GB in memory and since there is just one GB of physical memory on
> the box it swaps like crazy.
> 
> Any ideas about way around this?
> 
> One obvious one would be to rollover more frequently so the files are
> smaller...
> 
> Put another 512MB memory on the box?
> 
> Russell

	While more memory is always good, if the RSS is less than the amount of
memory you can add things should get a lot better I expect. Carter did mention
earlier that racluster and rasort are going to be memory hungry. 

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada