[rtg] rtg status?

[Jacob Steinberger]

Matt Provost wrote:
> 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...
>   

In all honesty, if I wanted to compress/average data based on time, I'd 
use another product. I use RTG for two reasons - MySQL, and raw data. 
I'd hate to see either go away, in any iteration.

Jacob