[rrd-users] api for iterating over single rows in a rrd file

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Daniel Pocock wrote:
> > Neither ... my question is, what is the purpose of such an
> > endevour on the API level.
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> >From a technical perspective, if rrdtool provided such an API:
> - it would make programming easier for people accessing data in this way
> - it could be optimized for efficiency (e.g. the IO subsystem would be
> reading 4KiB of data from each file at a time, the iterator would then
> return values from that buffer and the IO subsystem would only do more
> reads when the iterator advances over a page boundary)
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> >From a user perspective, it would enable people to look across all their
> RRDs, e.g. to answer questions like "which CPUs were over 90% utilized
> at any time between 09:00 and 10:00"

rrdtool 2.x will provide cooler apis ;)

cheers
tobi


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