Project: RRDtool
Author:  Tobias Oetiker
Date:    2007-11-19

Status Report on RRDtool OSS Project
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RRDtool work for 2007 is sponsored by these companies:

Gold Sponsors: 

* 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
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* 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
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* 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 before 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 also next section.

* RRDtool 1.2.x

  * Work presented by Dave Plonka at LISA 2007 suggests that Linux 2.6
    read-a-head behavior 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

  * A long standing bug where the handling of min and max values in graphs
    with min == max and max < 0 was resolved.


* RRDtool 1.4

  * The portable-data-format-release has been postponed to 2008 to allow 1.3
    to properly stabilize. Current work is tracked on 

    http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool-trac/wiki/PortableRrdFormat


* RRDtool 1.2.24, 1.2.25, 1.2.26 released

     https://lists.oetiker.ch/pipermail/rrd-announce/

Sponsorship 2008
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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
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* 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

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Tobi Oetiker, Olten, Switzerland
2007-11-19