[rrd-users] 32-bit GAUGE

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Achim,

rrdtool uses double data format internally there is no easy way to
alter that ... but hey, it's open source ... hack away by all means
make it do what you want it todo for your system.

cheers
tobi



Today ekgnkb3d wrote:

>
> Hi all,
> Is it possible to configure RDDTool to store GAUGE (or other data sources)
> to only occupy 32-bit instead of 64-bits?
>
> I'm using RDDTool in an embedded environment on an ARM9 running Debian
> Sarge/Ubuntu Jaunty. It shall replace MySQL and I guess it performs much
> better and helps saving a lot of space and trouble on the small flash
> memory. So storing the GAUGE values in 64-bits is definitive not needed, it
> is simply too much of resolution, much more as my temperature sensors have.
> So storing the values in 32-bit float would be enough and simply saves half
> the space.
>
> An idea?
>   Achim
>

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