Where r00t has no land

Found a problem (it was reported and has been solved http://bugs.cacti.net) when adding a new device (or editing an existing one) make sure you have no trailing whitespaces in the hostname field! Otherwise the poller (spine) will hang forever when it reaches that host. This issue has been updated in the svn repository of cacti [...]

So here are a few settings I used to have my cactid work without producing any gaps (I had this issue on my system, where allot of gaps started appearing on my graphs, and additionaly the polling performance was low).
My system specs:

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
512Mb memory
73GB HD

I used the following poller settings in cacti [...]

What is Dataquery?
Dataquery is the ex-cactiquery addon for cacti. It was renamed to dataquery to be distinguished between the old version of it. The new version makes use of the plugin architecture.
How do i run Dataquery?
Just install the plugin and make sure you read the Readme file included in the package.
To query a graph just [...]

A new update of dataquery is available (0.1.4a).
This version fixes issue inside the class_cactiquery.php regarding redeclaration of variables and a problem with the timestamp parsing function.
Donwload from Mirror:
http://cactiusers.org/forums/download.php?id=191
Or directly:
dataquery-014a.zip

New version has been uploaded today of dataquery.
This new version resolves minor problems with the link creation of the dump file.
Mirror:
dataquery-0.1.2a.tar.gz
Direct:
dataquery-012a.zip

Ok i was messing around and i am pretty much involved with cacti (and some development for it) so since i am regularly experimenting with it on production servers i needed to create a script for daily backup of the DB.