[rrd-users] Still having problems

2007-04-09 Thread Russell Handorf
Greetings, I wrote once before and no one responded. I'm trying to setup a RRD database that will hold one value once a day. I'm terribly lost, the documentation didnt make too much sense too me as far as the DB is concerned. I tried following some examples, but I am getting really random and

Re: [rrd-users] Still having problems

2007-04-09 Thread Russell Handorf
Thanks! I knew it was something I was doing, I just didnt understand what. It's now working great. r Simon Hobson wrote: Russell Handorf wrote: I have the DB setup like this $rrdtool create $rrd --start $timep --step 86400 DS:sql:ABSOLUTE:86400:0:1000 RRA:MAX:0.5:1:6000

Re: [rrd-users] Still having problems

2007-04-09 Thread Sam Umbach
So you feed in the number 7 after a one day interval. The program computes the rate as 7 / 86400 somethings/second and stores that - assuming you update on a step boundary. If your updates are not exactly on the step boundaries then the program will normalise what you feed it to fit. For