Today you sent me mail regarding Re: [rrd-developers] ANNOUNCE:...: *> Tobi, *> *> Do you have any performance numbers for generating PNG versus GIF files?
yep, the piped example in the example directory creates both ... pngs aare about 20-30% faster to generate and only about 40% the size of lzw free gifs ... cheers tobi *> *> Thanks, *> Blair *> *> *> Tobias Oetiker wrote: *> > *> > Hi, *> > *> > Sorry to not announce 1.0.0 today, but there have just been too many changes *> > to feel certain to release 1.0.0 just yet ... *> > *> > I hope to be able to release on Thursday ... *> > *> > Here goes the story. Last Week Thomas Boutell pulled gdlib from his *> > website, stating problems with licensing issues ... (the good old gif story *> > again). This has motivated me to add PNG support to rrdtool, so that we are *> > not dependent on GIF anymore. Now gif is still the default output format, *> > but I am not using lzw compression any more. The --imgformat PNG switch *> > allows to go to make rrdtool graph output PNG ... *> > *> > Adding PNG support required me to add zlib and libpng to the rrdtool *> > distribution. I am not sure how portable the whole tool is now. I have tested *> > on Solaris and Linux (Debian) ... it seems to work, but I would be *> > very happy if some more people could give rrdtool a whirl ... *> > *> > CHANGELOG: *> > ---------- *> > 0.99.52 *> > From: Tobi *> > 0) repackaged to recover from error in MANIFEST *> > 0.99.51 *> > From: Blair *> > 0) reduced number of syscalls in rrd_update by 30% *> > From: Tobi *> > 0) added <RRD:SETENV to rrdcgi ... allows you to setvariables like TZ *> > to do things in different timezones ... *> > 1) make sure no < and > are in data imported from cgi ... *> > replace occurrences by _ *> > 2) switched to gdlib 1.3 *> > 3) added support for PNG output format ... (small changelog line for a lot *> > of work . *> > .) *> > 4) fixed default for -b option in rrd_create *> > 5) Switched to lucidatypewriter font *> > *> > From: Alex *> > 0) fixed Last-Modified: and Expires: to output dates compatible with *> > http standard. *> > *> > -- *> > ______ __ _ *> > /_ __/_ / / (_) Oetiker, hacking RRDTOOL&MRTG @ Caida for the Summer *> > / // _ \/ _ \/ / +1 619 822 0882 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.caida.org/~tobi *> > /_/ \.__/_.__/_/ _______________________________________________________ *> > *> > -- *> > * To unsubscribe from the rrd-developers mailing list, send a message with the *> > subject: unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ______ __ _ /_ __/_ / / (_) Oetiker, hacking RRDTOOL&MRTG @ Caida for the Summer / // _ \/ _ \/ / +1 619 822 0882 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.caida.org/~tobi /_/ \.__/_.__/_/ _______________________________________________________ -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Listar -- -- Type: TEXT/X-VCARD -- File: bzajac.vcf -- Desc: Card for Blair Zajac -- * To unsubscribe from the rrd-developers mailing list, send a message with the subject: unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
