On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Mike Gerdts <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Or rrdtool consumes the data instantly, but the raw data is kept
> around for a bit.

You're heading a little further than I was originally. I was originally only
looking at the very bottom layer of the stack - just dumping enough raw
data both regularly enough and sufficiently completely that a range of
higher-level tools had something to chew on.

My experience here is that munging data into rrd is relatively expensive,
at least on the scale we're looking at here. I suspect that for rrd collection
you would have to identify the subset of statistics of interest, and just keep
those. Or are you suggesting we rrd everything? (That won't work for any
meaningful definition of everything: just consider the I/O statistics for NFS
mounts in an environment with an active automounter.) And if just a
subset, can we identify that?

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-Peter Tribble
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