Re: [rrd-users] building a huge rrd / any limitations?

2008-06-11 Thread Sebastian Harl
Hi Tobi, On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 08:16:59AM +0200, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > > Tobi, btw., the patch I posted to this thread earlier could imho go into > > the 1.4 development branch. I don't think it should be put into 1.3 as > > it breaks the ABI (there are a couple of functions expecting off_t wh

Re: [rrd-users] building a huge rrd / any limitations?

2008-06-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Sebastian, > Tobi, btw., the patch I posted to this thread earlier could imho go into > the 1.4 development branch. I don't think it should be put into 1.3 as > it breaks the ABI (there are a couple of functions expecting off_t which > would then expect 8 bytes for that argument). but you were

Re: [rrd-users] building a huge rrd / any limitations?

2008-06-11 Thread Sebastian Harl
Hi Karl, On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:41:28AM +0200, Karl Fischer wrote: > >> If that's the case I can split up into multiple rrd's > >> with a lower number of DS per rrd and each of them will > >> still stay below 2GB ... > >> > >> Any comments on the performance such a rrd might show? > >> Think a

Re: [rrd-users] Graphing integer data in Cacti/RRDTool

2008-06-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Nick, Yesterday Nick Ellson wrote: > > I have been point to RRD-Tool as the possible cause of an artifact I am > seeing in my Cacti graphs of a Cisco ASA VPN Connection Count OID. If I > understand what it happening, the squarewave looking graphs I had in MRTG > showing the number of remote u

Re: [rrd-users] Graphing integer data in Cacti/RRDTool

2008-06-11 Thread Karl Fischer
Nick Ellson wrote: > Google landed me on something finally... > > http://osdir.com/ml/db.rrdtool.user/2002-10/msg00091.html > > Though if there are Cacti Pro's that have solved this that wouldn't mind > sharing how you did it I would appreciate it. I am barely getting the hang > of modifying gr

Re: [rrd-users] Graphing integer data in Cacti/RRDTool

2008-06-11 Thread Nick Ellson
Google landed me on something finally... http://osdir.com/ml/db.rrdtool.user/2002-10/msg00091.html Though if there are Cacti Pro's that have solved this that wouldn't mind sharing how you did it I would appreciate it. I am barely getting the hang of modifying graph templates and such. Nick

[rrd-users] Graphing integer data in Cacti/RRDTool

2008-06-11 Thread Nick Ellson
I have been point to RRD-Tool as the possible cause of an artifact I am seeing in my Cacti graphs of a Cisco ASA VPN Connection Count OID. If I understand what it happening, the squarewave looking graphs I had in MRTG showing the number of remote users currently logged in, is not possible wit

Re: [rrd-users] building a huge rrd / any limitations?

2008-06-11 Thread Karl Fischer
> Hi Karl, > >> If that's the case I can split up into multiple rrd's >> with a lower number of DS per rrd and each of them will >> still stay below 2GB ... >> >> Any comments on the performance such a rrd might show? >> Think about storing values for a 5+ year period with a >> one minute resolutio

Re: [rrd-users] building a huge rrd / any limitations?

2008-06-11 Thread Karl Fischer
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/451852#49 Sebastian, just studied the thread ... Well, creating a database that spans ~1150 years not only breaks LONG, it also breaks the current UNIX time function, that allows for a range of ~68 years (01.01.1970 - 18.01.2038) ... ;-) - Karl

Re: [rrd-users] building a huge rrd / any limitations?

2008-06-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Karl, > If that's the case I can split up into multiple rrd's > with a lower number of DS per rrd and each of them will > still stay below 2GB ... > > Any comments on the performance such a rrd might show? > Think about storing values for a 5+ year period with a > one minute resolution ... (3+

Re: [rrd-users] building a huge rrd / any limitations?

2008-06-11 Thread Karl Fischer
> Hi Karl, > > (Not going to comment on the usefulness of having such large RRD's. ;-)) Hi Sebastian, what should I do if the requirement is to keep data for a long period of time without loosing resolution? > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:14:18AM +0200, Karl Fischer wrote: >> I'm planning to crea

Re: [rrd-users] [rrd-developers] building a huge rrd / any limitations?

2008-06-11 Thread Sebastian Harl
Hi, On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:34:28PM +0200, Sebastian Harl wrote: > Attached to this E-mail you can find a patch that adds _very_ _basic_ > large file support. D'oh! Now, it really is attached to this E-mail ;-) Cheers, Sebastian -- Sebastian "tokkee" Harl +++ GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC +++ http:/

Re: [rrd-users] building a huge rrd / any limitations?

2008-06-11 Thread Sebastian Harl
Hi Karl, (Not going to comment on the usefulness of having such large RRD's. ;-)) On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:14:18AM +0200, Karl Fischer wrote: > I'm planning to create a really huge rrd with 5-10 million rows > holding about 100-200 entries each, so the complete rrd will reach > a size of 5 .. 2

Re: [rrd-users] RRDtool Beginner

2008-06-11 Thread Fabien Wernli
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:38:53AM -0400, Emily Chouinard wrote: > Any pointers in the right direction or suggestions would be appreciated. You could play with the contents of /proc/stat to monitor CPU usage: [...] cpu 823945 102664 419218 112203483 434859 6285 334160 0 0 [...] just create COU

[rrd-users] RRDtool Beginner

2008-06-11 Thread Emily Chouinard
So being a beginner I have worked through all available examples on the web, those by Corey Goldberg were by far the most helpful, what I would like to do now is work with my Linux computer and measure something in real time to create my very first RRD. I am working with the rrd-python binding,

[rrd-users] Announcement: RRDtool 1.3.0 is available for download

2008-06-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Users! After many beta and rc version I have finally releasing RRDtool 1.3.0. Get it from http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/ Here is the news: = NEW Fast file access methods (Bernhard Fischer / Tobi Oetiker) * introduced file-accessor functions rrd_rea

Re: [rrd-users] building a huge rrd / any limitations?

2008-06-11 Thread gabrielle
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Fabien Wernli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:14:18AM +0200, Karl Fischer wrote: >> I'm planning to create a really huge rrd with 5-10 million rows >> holding about 100-200 entries each, so the complete rrd will reach >> a size of 5 .. 20 GB

[rrd-users] Jeffrey Petter is out of the office.

2008-06-11 Thread jeffrey . j . petter
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Re: [rrd-users] building a huge rrd / any limitations?

2008-06-11 Thread Fabien Wernli
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:14:18AM +0200, Karl Fischer wrote: > I'm planning to create a really huge rrd with 5-10 million rows > holding about 100-200 entries each, so the complete rrd will reach > a size of 5 .. 20 GB ... > Are there any problems to expect when creating and using an rrd > that si

Re: [rrd-users] building a huge rrd / any limitations?

2008-06-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Karl, Today Karl Fischer wrote: > Tobias Oetiker wrote: > > Hi Karl, > > > >> so do you mean splitting up the rrd into multiple files by putting > >> only a few (10 to 20) entries into each file (but sill holding 5-10 > >> million rows) would be be better? > > > > it would certainly be more in

Re: [rrd-users] building a huge rrd / any limitations?

2008-06-11 Thread Karl Fischer
Tobias Oetiker wrote: > Hi Karl, > >> so do you mean splitting up the rrd into multiple files by putting >> only a few (10 to 20) entries into each file (but sill holding 5-10 >> million rows) would be be better? > > it would certainly be more in line with what other people do ... > > do you act