Today Marc Bilodeau wrote: > Good question tobi, at Somix our denika/webnm products write the polled data > to both the RRD files and the MySQL back-end. We believe that users should > have a quick reference for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly data. However, > if the user needs to create a report based on 5 minute samples between 8am > and 5pm for Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday on the week of October 23 they can > with the stored data. Some would argue by increasing the amount of data that > can be stored in the rrd file would do the trick. However, many other tools > out there can take advantage of the database via ODBC or a direct > connection.
Hi Marc, Yep, that seems like a sensible thing .... I would assume though that in a setup with MANY datasources, that mysql may probably not be able to keep up or fill up quickly if no data is deleted ... have you done any tests in this direction ? mysql vs rrd performance? cheers tobi -- ______ __ _ /_ __/_ / / (_) Oetiker @ ISG.EE, ETZ J97, ETH, CH-8092 Zurich / // _ \/ _ \/ / System Manager, Time Lord, Coder, Designer, Coach /_/ \.__/_.__/_/ http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker +41(0)1-632-5286 -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
