Hi, On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 01:33:19PM +0100, Frédéric Pégé wrote: > The load values are returned in 3 different values under the same item. > load/load. Values are longterm, shortterm and midterm. And I'm ok with that.
Just my two cents on loadavg: IMHO it's totally useless to keep anything else than shortterm, if you're using some kind of historization like rrdtool, as you'll get the two others for free. midterm/longterm are only useful when no history is available, e.g. from the command line, or if you're using some kind of realtime visualization. > Do you have an explanation for these different ways ? Anyways, back to your real question: The reason for the differences is purely historical. The tendency is to move away from multiple datasources (like load, if_octets, etc.) and use only simple datasources, like gauge, cpu, etc. Maybe this will happen in collectd 6, if two wisely chosen guys have the courage to do so ;-) _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list collectd@verplant.org http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd
