smooth looking graphs vs. choppy looking ones

[golgotha]

First of all, Cacti works great!

A friend of mine installed it on a *bsd system and when I looked at his graphs, they were extremely smooth looking. However, mine look jagged.

Sounds like I need to update a package somewhere, but which one is directly responsible for creating the graphs?

Thanks!

[fmangeant]

Hi

IMO you're using RRDtool 1.0.x, and your friend RRDtool 1.2.x
Look at the difference : http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=7130

You just have to update RRDtool, and change these 2 settings in Cacti :
- General -> RRDTool Utility Version
- Paths -> RRDTool Default Font Path

Enjoy

[golgotha]

wow, what a big difference!

Graphs are looking really sharp now.

One more thing: it appears that the fonts are missing from the graphs.
If I configure rrdtool-1.2 with --prefix=/usr, then is the font directory /usr/share/rrdtool/fonts? Putting this setting in the rrdtool fonts directory setting in cacti doesn't fix my problem.

Further, the only font sitting in /usr/share/rrdtool/fonts is DejaVuSansMono-Roman.ttf. Is this my problem?

Thanks again,
Ron

[golgotha]

disregard, cacti doesn't want the path to the directory, it wants the file.

All working now, thanks for the great help and direction!