heh heh - we get the same spikes. It's due to the nightly traffic to our tape backup server! Possibly the same cause on your network also...
Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Bayless > Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 2:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [mrtg] Large inaccurate spikes in graphs > > I'm using mrtg 2.12.2 on BSD/OS and getting very large spikes > in the graphs that can't possibly be accurate. I have AbsMax > set for all graphs, and the spikes are not going above > AbsMax, but they are still too big for the counters being > graphed. Is there a known bug for MRTG that might explain > this? We just started seeing this happen recently on several > different types of graphs (snmp target and external scripts). > The machine doing the graphs is fairly busy (load averages: > 9.38, 8.28, 8.04 ) but would this make MRTG start making > arithmetic mistakes? > > Here's an example graph: > > http://www.fiber.net/users/abayless/117458-day.gif > > Thanks, > Adam -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
