[rrd-users] rrd_restore memory consumption (Re: rrdtool backed mrtg using massive amounts of memory)

[Tobias Oetiker]

Carson,

Yesterday Carson Gaspar wrote:

> Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> > Hi Carson,
> >
> > the problem is, that in 1.3 we are using libxml to read in the
> > complete file. The same happens in 1.2, but there we use our own
> > code todo it ...
> >
> > In order to fix this behaviour, I have to rewrite rrd_restore
> > entirely to use an incremental parsing aproach (xmlread) ...
> >
> > for now, your best bet with large rrd files is to use 1.2
>
> Is it possible to at least fix the error handling to fail gracefully and
> not spew thousands of lines of errors? Or is that embedded in libxml and
> not fixable by rrdtool?

well the errors come from libxml as fahr as I can see ... in any
event, I have already started coding the new version ...

cheers
tobi

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