[rrd-developers] SQL Backend request

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Robert,

you may want to look at your sytem configuration ... especially
blocksized and cache handling ... how often to you want to update
these 100k rrd files per minute  ?

cheers
tobi


> I while ago I noticed a topic that let rrdtool use a database backend.  What
> is the status with this project?  Also, has this turned out to be a viable
> solution when updating large amounts of rrd files?  We're currently
> exploring other storage media to help our writes become faster.  We are
> currently writing just under 100K rrd files and have distributed writing.
> We were thinking of modifying rrdtool to use a MySql database and would like
> to modify the database beackend I saw on the list (if needed) accordingly so
> that we don't have to re-invent the wheel.
>
> I tried to look through the archives, but was only seeing patches to the
> library file.  Is there a place to get the whole thing at?  I couldn't see
> it in the /lib or /contrib download directories of the main site.
>
>

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