mrtg.cfg eating up resources

[phantom2]

Can anybody tell me what the below is and why it's using so much cpu resources?


root 3.28 3.21 2.0
Top Process %CPU 39.5 /usr/bin/perl /scripts/realperlinstaller Net::AIM Net::SSLeay Archive::Tar Tree::MultiNode Tie::IxHash HTML::Entities Bundle:BD::mysql CGI MD5 Digest::MD5 Mail::SpamAssassin Net:NS Bundle::Interchange
Top Process %CPU 32.0 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg
Top Process %CPU 23.0 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg

Thanks!

[DWHS.net]

We remove mrtg on almost all servers, we do it like this:

rpm -e mrtg

it's a resource hog.

[dynaweb]

Out of curiosity, have you noticed (since uninstalling):

1) System performance increase?

2) Loss of any kind of functionality (stats or something)?

3) Anyhting else worth commenting on?


TY

[DWHS.net]

Not one customer has pointed it out and nothing has stopped working that we use.

I can't say I have noticed a performance increased but anything that chews up 10% pieces of cpu through the day will slow down other services.

I have seen mrtg hit 30-40% averages on busy servers.

I say unless your are running a managed switch mrtg on the server then disable it. It's not worth your customers seeing mrtg for the system resource use.

Just my 2 cents..

[dynaweb]

Thanks a lot for the comments. People may also find this interesting http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/
especially the part about configuration.