Today Daniel Pocock wrote: > > Neither ... my question is, what is the purpose of such an > > endevour on the API level. > > > >From a technical perspective, if rrdtool provided such an API: > - it would make programming easier for people accessing data in this way > - it could be optimized for efficiency (e.g. the IO subsystem would be > reading 4KiB of data from each file at a time, the iterator would then > return values from that buffer and the IO subsystem would only do more > reads when the iterator advances over a page boundary) > > >From a user perspective, it would enable people to look across all their > RRDs, e.g. to answer questions like "which CPUs were over 90% utilized > at any time between 09:00 and 10:00"
rrdtool 2.x will provide cooler apis ;) cheers tobi > > -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland www.oetiker.ch t...@oetiker.ch +41 62 775 9902 _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
