Yesterday kevin brintnall wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 03:56:15PM +0100, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > > A new datasource type called DGAUGE. It would always *round down* > > the timestamp to the last step. > > I like it. I have a couple places where I specifically do that in order > to get "real" values.. Before I update I do something like: > > $time -= $time % $step > > In my case, this is usually for things that are updated once daily but not > at 00:00:00. > > > To not break things too much, multiple updates to DGAUGE within the > > same STEP would get averaged without regards to the actual > > timestamp the update was provided. > > Averaged how? $v = ($old + $new)/2 ? > > If there are 3 updates we'll end up with: > > $v = $older/4 + $old/4 + $new/2 > > ... and so on. Is that OK?
sum of values divided by number of values ... > > > In that way, peple would see the data they put in, appear > > in 1 step AVERAGE, MIN and MAX RRAs as long as they manage to put > > in only one update per step. > > > > coments ? > > Yeah! > > -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 _______________________________________________ rrd-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-developers
