I see that a lot in the mailing list, an argument like: "rrdtool is a logger, not a drawing tool". The drawing engine of rrdtool is great though.
Although questions like "I want to store only 5 minute samples" or "I want to log exact values, not interpolated ones" seems more logical to do in *sql, storing in a rrd makes the graphic drawing engine available to you. It's hard to write such a versatile engine for yourself based on something like gd, gdgraph, gdchart and the likes. I'd go for rrdtool on this one. Serge. -----Original Message----- From: Gareth Poulton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 3:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [rrd-users] Re: How does rrdtool behave if I store 5-minute-values for one year? On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Stephan Harren wrote: > So the consolidation is just good for saving disk space? To my mind, the whole point of the 'round robin' system is to handle disk space issues... if you're happy storing large amounts of data then maybe you should think about whether rrd is really what you want. Just a thought. -- Gareth Poulton email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - icq: 20665652 - Y!: gpoulton -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
