Today Florian Forster wrote: > 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.
interessting idea, I will meditate on this ... thanks tobi > -- 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 rrd-developers@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-developers
