From 9c2564d35522a3dab32ee177071494054304e922 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: oetiker Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:02:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added report git-svn-id: svn://svn.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/trunk@1230 a5681a0c-68f1-0310-ab6d-d61299d08faa --- status/2007-11-19.txt | 106 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 106 insertions(+) create mode 100644 status/2007-11-19.txt diff --git a/status/2007-11-19.txt b/status/2007-11-19.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..286a9e72 --- /dev/null +++ b/status/2007-11-19.txt @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +Project: RRDtool +Author: Tobias Oetiker +Date: 2007-11-19 + +Status Report on RRDtool OSS Project +==================================== + +RRDtool work for 2007 is sponored by these companies: + +Gold Sponors: + +* GroundWork Open Source - IT Monitoring & Network Solutions + www.groundworkopensource.com + +* ZenOSS - Open Source Enterprise Monitoring + www.zenoss.com + +Silver Sponsors: + +* op5 - Systems and Network Monitoring +* Host Europe - World Class Internet Hosting & Services +* Contego Solutions - Managed Firewall, Managed VPN, and Secure Data Hosting +* ATC-Onlane - Automotive Remarketing +* terreActive - IT Security +* Google Inc., USA +* Hitflip Media Trading GmbH, Germany +Pocket Co., Japan + +Current Activities +------------------ + +* Code Maintenance. Mails on the mailing-lists and directly to me indicate + compatibility issues or suggest little changes. These are often implemented + directly. + +* Mailing-list, Web-server, Trac Maintenance. The on-line resources for + RRDtool are kept up-to-date, in working order and spam free. + +* LISA Tutorials on RRDtool + +* Beta Testing for 1.3 release + +* Planning for 1.4 release + +Accomplishments +--------------- +* RRDtool 1.3 + + * At Linux World I have released the first BETA for RRDtool 1.3. + + * Unfortunately there has not been all that much response to the Beta + release. Either it works for most who try or they are happy with what + they have. In any event I will release 1.3.0 befor the years end, + probably followed by a rapid succession of updates as more people will + start using the 'real' update. + + * People who have been testing the new release have seen dramatic + performance improvements with linux 2.6. See als next section. + +* RRDtool 1.2.25 + + * Work presented by Dave Plonka at LISA 2007 suggests that Linux 2.6 + read-a-head behaviour is badly hurting rrdtool performance . Using + fadvise RANDOM it is possible to counteract this and provide a massive + performance boost. With this he was able to run an RRD setup with over + 200k RRDs updated in a 5 minute cycle. Other users have since confirmed + this. + + Daves work is included in rrdtool 1.2.25 as well as 1.3beta. + + http://www.usenix.org/event/lisa07/tech/plonka.html + + +* RRDtool 1.4 + + * The portable-dataformat-release has been postponed to 2008 to allow 1.3 + to propperly stabilize. Current work is tracked on + + http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool-trac/wiki/PortableRrdFormat + + +* RRDtool 1.2.24, 1.2.25 released + + https://lists.oetiker.ch/pipermail/rrd-announce/ + +Sponsorhip 2008 +--------------- + +The 2008 Sponsorship program has been setup. If you have not signed up yet. +I would be thrilled to have you as a sponsor for the next year. Please be in +touch. + +Planned Activities +------------------ + +* Release of RRDtool 1.3.0 + +* Implementation of RRDtool 1.4. + + The main feature of the 1.4 release will the portable data format. + +* Maintenance of series 1.2.x, 1.3.x + +-- +Tobi Oetiker, Olten, Switzerland +2007-11-19 -- 2.30.2