[rtg] rtg status?

[Matt Provost]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 05:51:13PM -0500, John Center wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is the status of this project?  We've been using an older version 
> of rtg.  I saw a discussion about various patches floating around, but 
> it doesn't look like there has been any further development.  Could 
> someone please update the list?
> 

I've been working on a fork of the rtg poller for a few months. I'll
probably put it up online once I get to a good point if people are
interested.

So far it's just been a big cleanup of the code, and adding a bunch of
patches. The thread and signal code is a lot cleaner now. I also have
it reconnecting to the database automatically. I got rid of all the
memory leaks.

There's a lot that I'd like to do but we'll see how much time I have.
The problem with the vast amounts of data that rtg collects is an
interesting one. There's lots of good research out there about
compressing time series data, but I'm not sure how you would do it and
still keep it in SQL. Then again, you could write a backend for the
poller that writes to any format...

Thanks,
Matt