I noticed recently that two common versions of rrdtool have different font choices, which directly affects Ganglia's graphs. I specifically noticed this in version 1.0.49 and version 1.2.x; both of these are versions commonly shipped by various vendors.
The problem is that the default font used by the two versions is different. I've posted examples here: http://pliernose.ath.cx/ganglia/fonts/ Note the difference in font size, and spefically that there are two lines of text in the 1.0.49 image, but three lines of text in the 1.2.x version. This directly affects the various "fudge" values used in the various charts. I did a little digging, and I think the font change happened around rrdtool version 1.2.2, but I'm not completely sure. In any event, it was probably years ago. Newer versions of rrdtool accept font specifications, but 1.0.49 does not. So, the question to the list: which font to "support?" I'd guess the 1.2.x series, but there are still a lot of copies of rrdtool-1.0.49 running out there. -- Jesse Becker GPG Fingerprint -- BD00 7AA4 4483 AFCC 82D0 2720 0083 0931 9A2B 06A2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
