[collectd] About rrdtool and rrdcached plugins

[Bruno Prémont]

Hi 

On Thu, 23 February 2012 collectd at faxm0dem.org wrote:
> I had the exact same thought, and added the feature to my todolist.
> Maybe octo could shed some light on the roadmap concerning rrdtool plugin
> and its own cache vs. rrdcached plugin. What are your plans? I mean there's
> no good reason to keep the code duplication, is there?

I've written and am using the attached patch for a while now.
It applies as well to 4.10.3 as to 5.0.1 (did not yet check for
newer bugfix releases but should apply there too)

Florian, could you apply it to both branches?

Regards,
Bruno

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 09:20:37PM +0200, Cyril Feraudet wrote:
> >   
> > 
> > Hi All, 
> > 
> > Except mistake of me, we can't use both rrdtool and
> > rrdcached plugins together. 
> > 
> > Since "rrdcached" plugin haven't "rrdtool"
> > plugin options (RRATimespan, RRARows, etc), how to have 
> > 
> > custom RRD
> > when using rrdcached ? 
> > 
> > I actually have custom RRD with rrdcached, but
> > I did that by modifying "src/utils_rrdcreate.c" badly. 
> > 
> > Have you an
> > idea to do it cleaner ? I may be missed something obvious ... 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > 
> > Cyril 
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