Cacti and server resources

[attroll]

I was talking to some server techs and they told me that Cacti will utilize lot of server resources.
Is this true and if so please explain.

[TheWitness]

Rrdtool is I/O intensive. But with pcie ssd's so cheap these days (OCZ), its not going to matter much longer.

However, with systems in the thousands of devices, you must plan. For simply hundreds, it not a big deal.

In addition, there is a plugin called boost that illuminates the impact of I/O.

[attroll]

I am revisiting this question that I asked a while back. I was told that cacti would be very labor intensive on a server and it would be to intensive for my server. I am getting ready to replace my server and would like to be able to run something like cacti on it. Thank you for the answer TheWitness but now I am going to build a new server and when I build it I want to build it so that it will be able to run something like this without it being labor intensive.

What would I need for server hardware in order to be able to run something like cacti on it without it causing to much of a load on the server?

[gandalf]

Please see statistics in the Announcement Forum posted by Cacti users.
I was running an installation on a 6 year old server that polled around 60,000 data sources without issues. So, IMHO, the resource requirements are quite low, indeed
R.