Your message dated Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:29:33 +0100
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has caused the report #543631,
regarding rrdupdate does not support floating point values with DERIVE, COUNTER
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) RRDtool developers <[email protected]>
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Hi,
(This is a follow-up to Debian [bug543631].)
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:00:22AM +0000, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Floating point values are supported with GAUGE. This suprising
> behavior is not clearly documented, as far as I can tell. I don't
> think there are architectural reasons for this behavior.
[side note: "this surprising behavior" refers to the subject of the
E-mail, i.e. "rrdupdate does not support floating point values with
DERIVE, COUNTER" ;-)]
I'm not entirely sure about any reasons for that either. COUNTER and
DERIVE values are stored as a rate (i.e., a double) as well anyway. To
be able to calculate the rate, the last value is stored as well. This is
done using a string, though, so it does not impose any limitations
either.
With this E-mail, I'm forwarding the issue upstream, hoping for an
explanation (or request for patches ;-)).
Cheers,
Sebastian
[bug543631] http://bugs.debian.org/543631
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