On Monday 10 February 2003 19:01, Jay Wineinger wrote:
> That isnt completely accurate. rrdtool can take data at any interval, you
> just need to specify it when you create the rrd file. Personally, I get
> snmp data on 2 interfaces every 10 seconds and store them in two rrd files,
> and I have a php page that generates new graphs every time I view them (I
> migrated away from mrtg completely and just use rrd to store and graph).
> This was, the only consistent load on the box is from the snmp gathering
> (which is a local connection). The graph script runs only once every time
> the page is viewed, so the load is quite low there. however, I do agree
> that doing it all on the client would be better, but for a distributed
> viewing, a webpage makes a nice interface.
Still, rrdtool is not made for real time graphing. A 10 sec interval is not
real-time. For me, real-time is now. And for that you need something that
can graph the files locally like java or vb.
Stef
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