[rrd-users] rrdtool without glib2 on FreeBSD

[Stefan Parvu]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 10:22:03 +0100
"Steven Hartland" <killing at multiplay.co.uk> wrote:

> We run it on ZFS with compression and it makes a massive difference
> to performance :)

right. very interesting. Thanks for tip. I need to check on this. 


> While rrd's are binary until they are full, which takes years then
> there's a massive space saving to be had, we see a compressionratio
> of 8.05x and a refcompressratio or 8.15x with lzjb.
> 
> If your running 10 I'd recommend trying lz4 which is significantly
> quicker in all regards.

cheers. I will put down some test cases for this. Yes we are building on FBSD 10
at the moment. 

Thanks a lot,

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Stefan Parvu <sparvu at systemdatarecorder.org>