Re: [rrd-users] values being averaged.

2008-01-17 Thread Fabien Wernli
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:57:08PM -0500, Shriver, Daniel wrote: > "GAUGE does not save the rate of change. It saves the actual value > itself. There are no divisions or calculations. Note though, GAUGE, > like all other types IS normalized. Thus if a value comes in at an > off interval timing (s

Re: [rrd-users] values being averaged.

2008-01-17 Thread Shriver, Daniel
I didn't get tripped up by this but if it people are often confused about this* maybe changing the wording in parts of the tutorial might get rid of some of the confusion. I'm not great on tech. writing- does this make it more clear: "GAUGE does not save the rate of change. It saves the actual val

[rrd-users] Statistical Weirdness

2008-01-17 Thread Joe Loiacono
I recently began creating a fifth graph (Last 3 years) to go along with the typical MRTG-like four (Last Day, Week, Month, Year). But, I noticed that the statistics for the new 3 Year graph do not match the 1 year graph even though there are only about 7 months worth of data, and you would thin

Re: [rrd-users] values being averaged.

2008-01-17 Thread Alex van den Bogaerdt
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:51:58AM -0600, Marc Powell wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:rrd-users- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:19 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch >

Re: [rrd-users] values being averaged.

2008-01-17 Thread Fabien Wernli
Hi, On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:18:55PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My biggest assumption was that the documentation was correct, this seems > to be incorrect, as the tutorial rrd_beginners > http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/tut/rrd-beginners.en.html states quiet > clearly: > "GAUGE does not sav

Re: [rrd-users] values being averaged.

2008-01-17 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:rrd-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch > Subject: Re: [rrd-users] values being averaged. > > Thanks for the reply,

Re: [rrd-users] values being averaged.

2008-01-17 Thread Simon Hobson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I had already read through the documentation, man pages and tutorials >before posting. I had also spent some time with just trial and error >where I wanted to clarify some of the examples as see what happened if. >So your assumption was wrong :-) > >My biggest assumptio

Re: [rrd-users] values being averaged.

2008-01-17 Thread Richard.W.Brown
Thanks for the reply, I had already read through the documentation, man pages and tutorials before posting. I had also spent some time with just trial and error where I wanted to clarify some of the examples as see what happened if. So your assumption was wrong :-) My biggest assumption was that

Re: [rrd-users] values being averaged.

2008-01-17 Thread Alex van den Bogaerdt
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 03:27:05PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem is that the value displayed on the graphs for number of > clients (as in Client server) shows 0.6 of a client! Well, since we all > know client connections can only be integer values this is obviously > wrong. It is

[rrd-users] values being averaged.

2008-01-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi I've been playing around with RRDtool as it looks like a tool that can in the long run save me a lot of time. My current requirement is to collect data related to a cluster of Linux machines. I have seen another post in January 2008 with what sounds like the same problem and the solution do