Boost plugin issues with graphs not updating

[jgilmour]

Hi,
I upgraded to v2.4 boost with our cacti server and had Boost on Demand Updating enabled, along with imaging cache. (it has since been disabled). I noticed that everything looked green in the cacti poller...
I would see successful BOOST stats and the poller log would look like:

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10/20/2009 11:05:20 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:18.5322 Method:spine Processes:5 Threads:10 Hosts:97 HostsPerProcess:20 DataSources:5524 RRDsProcessed:0

If i looked at a graph in real-time it would display properly and update, although if I looked at the graph layout (hourly, monthly, yearly, etc) it would not update. It was very strange...

I have attached the boost status data as well:

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Current Boost Status
Boost On Demand Updating:	Disabled
Total Data Sources:	5524
Boost Storage Statistics
Database Engine:	MyISAM
Current Boost Table Size:	5 MBytes
Avg Bytes/Record:	N/A
Max Record Length:	 Bytes
Max Allowed Boost Table Size:	Unlimited
Estimated Maximum Records:	Unlimited Records
Previous Runtime
Last Start Time:	2009-10-20 21:43:24
Last Run Duration:	19.0322 Seconds
RRD Updates:	71160
Peak Poller Memory:	57.22 MBytes
Max Poller Memory Allowed:	1024 MBytes
Run Time Configuration
Update Frequency:	N/A
Next Start Time:	2009-10-20 22:13:24
Maximum Records:	100000 Records
Maximum Allowed Runtime:	20 Minutes
Boost Server Details
Server Config Status:	Disabled
Multiprocess Server:	Single Process
Update Timeout:	2 Seconds
Server/Port:	localhost@9050
Authorized Update Web Servers:	127.0.0.1
RRDtool Binary Used:	/usr/bin/rrdtool
Image Caching
Image Cacing Status:	Disabled
Cache Directory:	/var/www/html/plugins/boost/cache/
Cached Files:	280 Files
Cached Files Size:	10 MBytes

and also attaching my my.cnf file

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[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
user=mysql

skip-innodb 
skip-locking 
skip-external-locking 

# Default to using old password format for compatibility with mysql 3.x
# clients (those using the mysqlclient10 compatibility package).
old_passwords=1
max_connections=300
max_heap_table_size = 3G
key_buffer = 1024M


myisam_sort_buffer_size = 64M

join_buffer_size = 1M 
read_buffer_size = 1M 
sort_buffer_size = 16M 

tmp_table_size = 64M 
table_cache = 1024 

read_rnd_buffer_size = 2M

thread_concurrency = 8
thread_cache = 200 
thread_cache_size = 256 

wait_timeout = 180 
connect_timeout = 10 

max_allowed_packet = 16M 
max_connect_errors = 10 

# To allow mysqld to connect to a MySQL Cluster management daemon, uncomment
# these lines and adjust the connectstring as needed.
#ndbcluster
#ndb-connectstring="nodeid=4;host=localhost:1186"

[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

[ndbd]
# If you are running a MySQL Cluster storage daemon (ndbd) on this machine,
# adjust its connection to the management daemon here.
# Note: ndbd init script requires this to include nodeid!
connect-string="nodeid=2;host=localhost:1186"

[ndb_mgm]
# connection string for MySQL Cluster management tool
connect-string="host=localhost:1186"

[mysqldump] 
quick 
max_allowed_packet = 16M 

[myisamchk] 
key_buffer = 64M 
sort_buffer = 64M 
read_buffer = 16M 
write_buffer = 16M

The system is a 4core processor, with 4GB of ram.
I definitely notice that there is severe I/O issues with just the poller (spine) w/o boost. Once I enabled boost everything was MUCH faster, its just that the graphs werent being displayed properly on the hourly/monthly/yearly (the normal graph layout when you click on a host)

Has anyone experienced this issue, or have any ways that would fix it?
I'm using CactiEZ (0.8.7c)on a 64bit machine, and manually upgraded to Boost 2.4.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

[jgilmour]

Could this be because I'm not on v2.5? I was going to try the upgrade today.