[rtg] Revisiting RTG....

[Aaron Glenn]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:45 PM, John Von Essen <john at quonix.net> wrote:
> First question is, what is the most current version, and where is it
> located.

depends on who you ask. if you search the archives you'll see you have
two (well, three, really) options. for all its other faults, the
latest cvs on sourceforge plus some patches floating around on the
list have worked solidly for myself and others.

> I still want to use Mysql as the backend (unless there is a better option).
> In the past I did myisam tables, would innodb get me better performance.

I use postgresql so I can't comment; other than to say switch to postgres (:

> And sort of unrelated, but if I get a new server, is the graph loading
> bottleneck CPU, Memory is disk IO?

without knowing your setup, I'm going to say disk I/O. creating proper
indexes can really speed up rtgplot, and also eat up disk space
potentially.

regards,
aaron.glenn