Got it.. I just wanted to make sure that I was understanding what it was.. thanks :)
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:34:40 -0500, Ken Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 17 September 2004 07:34 am, Matt Hoppes wrote: > > Hi, > > On the inter7 qmailmrtg7 graphs.. what exactly is the msg/hour graph > > displaying? > It is displaying the averaged number of messages per hour. > > > I know MRTG takes 5 minute averages but what exactly is > > it averaging? > Every 5 minutes we get an exact count of number of messages > received in the last 5 minutes. qmailmrtg7 multiplies that value > by 12 to change the time scale to msg/hour. That value is handed > to mrtg which averages it with the prior data samples. > > > I know it's doing the messages.. but how do you do > > msg/hour in a 5 minute average? > messages(in 5 minutes) * 12 = msg/hour > > > I guess I'm missing some sort of logic there.. > Most folks find it easier to view msg/hour instead of msg/5 mins. > Hence the multplication. Which means, if you only get 1 message > in 5 minutes, mrtg will show 12msg/hour. > > Ken Jones >
