[rrd-developers] Accelerator Daemon

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Florian,

> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:10:23PM +0200, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:40:29AM +0200, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> > > My next steps will be:
> > > - Pull the daemon into the RRDTool package. Is `RRDd' still a good name
> > >   or should I rename it to `rrdtoold'? Or something completely
> > >   different?
>
> I've done that now.. The patch at
> <http://verplant.org/temp/rrdtool-trunk-rrd_update_with_cache.patch>
> is updated.
>
> > well the daemon could be called
> >   rrdcached
>
> Okay.. I don't have time and energy to rename the daemon right now, so
> the above patch will install `RRDd' as `$prefix/bin/rrdd'. I'll rename
> it in the next few days.
>
> > on another note, I think it wold be a 'good thing' to add the ability
> > to write a journal to the daemon.
>
> Agreed, would be nice. I'd focus on the other features (i. e.  making
> `graph' and `fetch' and stuff cache-aware) first before doing any fancy
> stuff, though. The network protocol, for example, is not very nice right
> now and I'll change it when integrating that `flush' stuff.

You call it network protocol, do you envision a way for rrdtool
components to be able to run remotely? Any thoughts on
authentication ?

cheers
tobi

> Regards,
> -octo
>

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