[rrd-users] Architecture independence for rrd files

[Douglas Leith]

Alex,

Might be worth taking a look at:

http://search.cpan.org/~dougleith/RRD-Editor-0.15/lib/RRD/Editor.pm

as it might do most of what you want.

Doug


On 21 Jan 2013, at 05:21, Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:

>>> It might be better to create a program to convert RRD files in one go
>>> (we can already do an XML export/import of course) though this too 
>>> could be more trouble than it is worth.
> 
> Could be useful, especially for large files.
> 
>> I believe so, too. Reads/writes are done usually tens of thousands in
>> a monitoring period (with load peaks) while changing the architecture 
>> of the machine is done once a several years...
> 
> Not necessarily.
> Some people are using a light weight version of rrdtool update to gather
> their data, and use another machine to generate the graphs. Right now that
> other machine need to use the same byte order, alignement, and what more.
> 
> I'm not saying that such a specific case justifies architecture
> indepentend files (nor am I saying that it does not, by the way).
> 
> Maybe the way to go is this:
> If needed: change/expand the magic number so that it can be used to detect
> all different kinds of architecture
> Have fixed sized integers and other numbers
> parts that write (e.g. rrdtool update) work in their own architecture
> parts that only read (e.g. rrdtool graph) contain code to read different
> architecture
> 
> This results (or so I think now) in: fast what needs to be fast, flexible
> what needs to be flexible.
> 
> Variable functions (is that the name I'm looking for?) could be used.
> Interprete the magic number, and based on the outcome let function
> rrd_read_long point to rrd_read_long_LE_x86() or rrd_read_long_BE_64() or
> ...
> 
> just thinking out loud,
> cheers,
> alex
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> rrd-users mailing list
> rrd-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users