ganglia/monitor-core — pull request #13 by SEJeff (2012-02-07 05:28:56+00:00)
Title: RFC: Add 'write_rrds' option for disabling rrds

This is useful when gmetad is configured to send data to graphite.
Instead of writing out rrds natively and then whisper files later,
just send the data to carbon and let it write out whisper files.

**NOTE: I'm still relatively new to doing much with C other than reading it.**

This is a ```RFC```, not a _Please merge this I think I am awesome_. I'm curious if this is the right approach to disable writing of rrds by gmetad. In our instance, I'd like to put gmetad and the main carbon instance on the same webserver, but I'd rather have ganglia-web pull the graphs from graphite directly. A double IO hit from carbon/whisper + rrdtool slamming the disk is suboptimal.

Is this approach even close to what you'd consider merge worthy?