Hi Tobi, 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.
a lot of people tell me: ``I don't want to see emails _per second_ but the actual number of emails!''. When I then change the graph, so that each value is multiplied by the length of one ``interval'', they tell me it's confusing that a yearly graph shows much higher number than a daily graph. All they want is to see the number of emails, jeez! My point is, I'm not convinced it's good to give in to people who don't understand the concept. Maybe a good compromise would be to make this `now - (now % step)' calculation easier, so people who know what they're doing can do it with less pain. For this, we could add an alternative to the `N' time specification, for example `B' as `Beginning of interval' or `S' as `Step border'. An update would then become: $ rrdtool update "$FILE" B:1.23 $ # - or - $ rrdtool update "$FILE" S:1.23 This does not work with multiple values per step. But, if people want to update the file multiple times in one step _and_ want to get exactly the value they put in, they certainly should get an error message or they will really get confused. Regards, -octo -- Florian octo Forster Hacker in training GnuPG: 0x91523C3D http://verplant.org/
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