[Orca-users] Rsync Interval

[bias16]

We have about 300 servers rsync'ing with central server every five
minutes to match the polling interface in orcallator.  

* Is there any harm in just syncing the data once and hour while
maintaining the same polling interval?  

I have noticed that orca graphs are 2-3 hours behind the current time
anyway.  I also have cron to run orca on central server (creating
html/graphs) every five minutes.  I would like to split up my server
rsync times over an hour with one sync per system per hour.

I also have old data the is bzip2 from past days.  I would like to
keep this data to have weekly/monthly/yearly graphs.  

* Is there a distinct speed increase by not bothering to gzip2 these
files?

My central server is a T1400 with 2 450Mhz and 2 Gig memory.  It serve
of lot of management functions and I'm looking to spread the load out
of orca (as well as other things).  Orca, although niced, is really
CPU intensive to gather data and make html/graphs.

Thanks,
Liston