The System I run Munin 2.0.16 on CentOS 6 to monitor about 30 hosts. I mostly monitor 25-30 parameters per host (this depends to the running services) About half of the hosts are nearby (with a LAN latency) the other part is far (with about 250ms network latency). The facts I have noticed "munin-graph" and "munin-html" took a long time. Long enough to overlap themselves if I keep the interval default (5 minutes). I also noticed a huge "load average" One of the most annoying thing is the Munin cronjob exiting with error (leading to a mail sent to the administrators) because a lock file (the one of the previous launch) still existing. This is very noise generator and lead to lower the importance of messages sent by munin... Some solutions I was helped by this detailed post about Munin performance . And I decided to put both /var/lib/munin and /var/www/html/munin in tmpfs. In order to reduce the data loss when rebooting, I make an hourly du