Today Peter Amstutz wrote: | The second problem is that we're trying to graph changes in descrete | values, but we're not concerned with the actual rates. For this, the | "total" consolidation function makes the most sense, since we would like | to know the actual total number of errors that occured. However, I | gathered from the mailing list archives this feature was removed some time | ago. Why was this done, and are there any patches floating around that | might re-add the feature?
the reason for this is, that mrtg is an entirely time dependant beast ... a total os a completely square thing in this equation ... you can not say total, you must say: total from time x to time y ... and if you say this, you can say average from time x to time y multiplied by y - x ... and there ... puff comes your total ... out of the blue without any hacking required cheers tobi -- ______ __ _ /_ __/_ / / (_) Oetiker, ETZ J97, ETH, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland / // _ \/ _ \/ / phoneto:+41(0)1-632-5286 faxto:+41(0)1-632-1517 /_/ \.__/_.__/_/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
