Unexplainable disk space usage in nagios/var/spool/checkresults

[Casey Allen Shobe]

On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:40 AM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:
> I would highly recommend using tmpfs for the checkresults directory.
> This is especially important on logging file systems like JFS, XFS,
> Ext3+ and ReiserFS since every meta-data operation will cause a log
> write+flush (at the very least) which will cause a constant stream of
> unneeded IO.


Thanks for the advice - this sounds perfectly practical, as long as  
those files are not important to persist across nagios restarts.  The  
JFS partition is on top of DRBD, so if I move to tmpfs, the contents  
will disappear when a failover happens - that should be okay I take it?

Cheers,
-- 
Casey Allen Shobe
casey at shobe.info


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