On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:58:53PM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > > Yea perminute seemed to be the option argument that fixed things > > So what's the rule here? If the couner increments less than 300 ticks (at > 5 minute intervals), then switch to "perminute" ?
If you understand the problem, you can make an informed decision. The problem is that MRTG doesn't write fractions in its log. It truncates numbers to an integer. Normally a rate is computed by dividing delta(value) through delta(time). PerMinute and PerHour modify this process. Rates are 60 or 3600 times as high as they would normally be. 299/300 is less than 1, thus truncated to 0. 60*299/300 is truncated to 59. 3600*299/300 is truncated to 3588. There is no rule. You can decide what to do. You could also multiply the input by 1,000,000 and compensate for this -in your mind when viewing the graphs-. Or you could switch to RRDtool as backend, select a nice front end and receive numbers like 900m events (milli, not mega!). HTH Alex _______________________________________________ mrtg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg
