RRDTool 1.3 available for download

rcaston

Recently the beta for rrdtool 1.3 was released. (actual versioning is 1.2.99907080300) - information available here

I went ahead and began playing with it in test and having found no problems; moved it into production.

Combined with the Boost Plugin I found the write process to be about 15-20% faster with 1.3 versus 1.2.23.

Boost Stats: RRDTool 1.2.23
Last Start Time: 2007-08-07 13:26:14
Last Run Duration: 472.9507 Seconds
RRD's Updated: 252231

Boost Stats: RRDTool 1.3
Last Start Time: 2007-08-07 16:56:12
Last Run Duration: 424.6944 Seconds
RRD's Updated: 315157

# Being that this is beta code please remember that you are using it at your own risk.

fmangeant · Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 2:02 am Post subject:

Hi

I'm using RRDtool 1.3 beta 1 on a test system, and it works fine (with Cacti 0.8.6k beta 2).

RRDtool 1.3 needs Cairo/Pango for graphing, and does not need TTF fonts anymore (in fact no font is provided).

Graphs look different :

1.2.23
1.3 beta 1

I'll try to play with text alignement today and fonts sizes...

rcaston · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:31 am Post subject:

gru · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 7

Hi,

I've also upgraded to rrdtool 1.3 beta and had an alignment problem.

It looked like this:

There was no space between the current counter and "Average" and the average counter and "Maximum" (like with rrdtool 1.2).

I tried to add a trainling space in the GPRINT definition but Mysql was removing it always.
So I read the MySQL docu and found that changing the gprint_text column from VARCHAR to TINYTEXT (or any other TEXT type) keeps trainling spaces and would not need more data type memory.

So I changed column type and added the trailing space:.
Now it looks like I want it:

Perhaps Cacti developers could consider this change of data types.

Best regards,
Johannes

gandalf · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:22 pm Post subject:

Thank you for posting.
Please post images as attachments.
Reinhard

gru · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 7

OK acknowledged

mcutting · Cacti Guru User Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 1007

Does anyone have RRDTOOL 1.3 as a windows (exe) binary ? I tried to compile my own using Cygwin, but seem to have failed ! Thanks

jpooton · Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Posts: 7

Is there any work being done to correct GPRINT alignment for RRDtool 1.3 in Cacti? I'm seeing the mis-aligned GPRINTS text as shown in the 2nd post here on all my graphs.

Just curious before I go about rolling back RRDtool.

FWIW, Fedora Core 8 uses RRDtool 1.3beta1 as part of its distro currently.

gandalf · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:57 am Post subject:

Alignment may look weird if not using mono-spaced fonts. Cacti does not yet support new "alignment" codes introduced with latest rrdtool versions
Reinhard

jpooton · Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Posts: 7

gandalf · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:54 pm Post subject:

Please visit such a graph at Graph Management, switch to DEBUg and post a screenshot
Reinhard

jpooton · Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Posts: 7

Thanks for taking a look! Here you go...

Edit: oops... sorry.. need to redo the screenshot.

jpooton · Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Posts: 7

Actually in creating the screenshots I noticed something that might be at the root of the problem here. It looks like the new RRDtool has made some changes regarding font usage:

fmangeant · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 3:36 am Post subject:

I've just saw that RRDtool 1.3 was the one shiped with Fedora 8...

fmangeant · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:06 am Post subject:

Some news

RRDtool 1.3 beta 4 was out this morning, with a lot of bugfixes, including this one :