CallMeAl (like Alan)

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  • RRDtool refers to Round Robin Database tool. Round robin is a technique that works with a fixed amount of data, and a pointer to the current element. Think of a circle with some dots plotted on the edge. These dots are the places where data can be stored. Draw an arrow from the center of the circle to one of the dots; this is the pointer. When the current data is read or written, the pointer moves to the next element. As we are on a circle there is neither a beginning nor an end, you can go on and on and on. After a while, all the available places will be used and the process automatically reuses old locations. This way, the dataset will not grow in size and therefore requires no maintenance. RRDtool works with Round Robin Databases (RRDs). It stores and retrieves data from them.

    I guess I was thinking about it too abstractly.





  • I absolutely boycott and deride products and services that benefit or promote people and/or organizations that are anti human rights. That’s not negotiable for me.

    However, what I see here are some loud assholes who make a derivative from Devuan (not Devuan itself) and some forum admins with questionable moderation policies in a forum I have never visited. I also don’t see why I should care one way or the other what some cretin like Brian Lunduke (who I only learned about recently) has to say about anything at all.

    Even so my use of Devuan only costs the project, without any benefit to them whatsoever.

    In short, I refuse to enrich or amplify terrible people. But I will not let terrible people burn down useful open-source infrastructure just by standing near it.