Yesterday Stanislav Sinyagin wrote: > > --- Christian Schnidrig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Question to Christian: how did you get those values? > > > > I convert the values from the ifXTable e.g ifHCInOctets into bits before > > I enter them into the rrd's. > > Then it's definitely not good for a COUNTER: your counters are 64-bit > integers, > and they wrap at 64-bit boundary. > Multiplied by 8, and probaly summarized, you wouldn't be able to handle > the counter wraps any more. > > So, we need a better real-life example to convince the RRDtool development > team > to change the treatment of numbers...
Stan, see exactly what I expected, he is actually loosing significant data by doing what he does ... so maybe rrdtool shouldcomplain realy loud and only enable float processing if called with a sepcial option --yes-this-is-realy-float-data-and-not-me-doing-things-I-should-not-do-because-I-am-going-to-lose-significant-data-at-the-low-end cheers tobi > Cheers, > Stan > > -- > Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-developers > WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi > -- ______ __ _ /_ __/_ / / (_) Oetiker @ ISG.EE, ETZ J97, ETH, CH-8092 Zurich / // _ \/ _ \/ / System Manager, Time Lord, Coder, Designer, Coach /_/ \.__/_.__/_/ http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker +41(0)1-632-5286 -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-developers WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
