[rrd-users] Storing Static + Dynamic data in rrd

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Shameem,

Today Shameem Ahamed wrote:

> Can we have rrd files per domain (rather than per e-mail id) ?.
> As a total i may have 10K domains, and if each domain has 5
> email, i will end up with 50K files. So instead of that, can i
> have rrd files per domain (10K) and store the user information
> and user data within it ?.
>
> Is this possible ?

if you have a fixed number of emails per domain then this is doable, the
problem is that all updates to a single rrd file must be
synchronous ... and  changeing an existing rrd to a different
structure is not that easy

cheers
tobi
>
>
> Regards,
> Shameem
>
> --- On Thu, 25/2/10, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> wrote:
>
> > From: Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch>
> > Subject: Re: [rrd-users] Storing Static + Dynamic data in rrd
> > To: "Shameem Ahamed" <shameem.ahamed at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: rrd-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> > Date: Thursday, 25 February, 2010, 5:58 PM
> > Hi Shameen,
> >
> > Today Shameem Ahamed wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > Is there anyway , I can store both static and dynamic
> > data in rrd.
> > >
> > > I want to store the spam count details for all the
> > e-mail accounts.
> > >
> > >
> > > The format, I am thinking is something like
> > >
> > >         
> >    -> user1 at domain1.com
> > ->[data]
> > > domain1.com -> user2 at domain1.com
> > ->[data]
> > >         
> >    -> user3 at domain1.com
> > ->[data]
> > >
> > >         
> >    -> user1 at domain2.com
> > ->[data]
> > > domain2.com -> user2 at domain2.com
> > ->[data]
> > >         
> >    -> user3 at domain2.com
> > ->[data]
> > >
> > >
> > > Is it possible ?.  Is there any other rrd tool to
> > achieve this kind of storage ?.
> >
> > since rrd tool is best at storing 'preiodic' data, you
> > should make
> > sure that you set the 'step' at an interval such that users
> > are
> > likely to get several mails withing that interval ... else
> > you are
> > wasting storage space and would be better served with some
> > sql data
> > base ...
> >
> > having a separate rrd file per email address and storing in
> > there
> > some data about the users mail activity once per day seems
> > like a
> > sensible thing todo ...
> >
> > maybe
> >
> > mail-sent:mail-received:spam-received:virus-received:bounces-received
> >
> > cheers
> > tobi
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Shameem
> > >
> > >
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