Yes that is normal behavior. The first graph is a 5 minute interval. The 2nd graph, the weekly graph takes a 30 minutes average and graphs those points. For it to show the same amount of traffic for weekly as daily, you would have to sustain a certain amount of traffic for 30 minutes. The monthly graph takes 2 hours averages, and the yearly graph takes 1 day averages. The 1 day averages are what really kill the traffic graphs.
Remember in school when you had an A average and got 0 on one thing and it dropped you down to a B? Well same thing in effect here. You push traffic for 8-12 hours through out the day, but you have another 12-16 hours where you are really not doing anything and that drops the average traffic WAY down. If you look at an internet peering point where traffic is moving about the same 24x7, the yearly graph is a much better representation of traffic vs. trying to graph a link that gets used only 8-12 hours out of the day. Anyone please correct me if you think I'm wrong.... Carl -----Original Message----- From: Leen Smit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 10:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mrtg] Graphs get smaller over time?? Hi Guys! Ive been running MRTG for some days now on our pix to get the total bandwidth usage, but i noticed that the weekly, monthly and yearly graph get smaller, compared to the daily graph. (see http://193.172.16.239/pix/outside2.html ) As you can see there, there is obivous more traffic then allowed on a daily basis, but if i look at the monthly graph, all the values are below the set limit (not to mention the yearly one)? Is this something i can fixed in the config files?? or is this normal, since its 'averaging' the values? Any light on this would be greatly appreciated! (PS, yes, its in dutch, but the order of the graphs are the same dwmy ::)) Leen Smit -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
