Ronald Tse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 1 July 2001 15:01: >I believe you have to add some spaces to this: >% rrdtool create trafego.rrd -s 5\ > >-->> > >% rrdtool create trafego.rrd -s 5 \
Yes!! Thanks, it was the ONLY line that I didn't notice the space was missing :-( It's running now, let's see if the results look fine. I'll take the opportunity to ask a few things about rrdtool. There are design issues that I don't understand. First, I don't see the need to force users to define RRAs. Why the hell can't we simple stash the data in there???? Second, why is it mandatory to use a consolidation function in rrdfetch? Why can't we just get back the raw data? Third, I don't like the idea of alignment of the data to the predefined time steps. This should be optional. Better yet, it should be optional in rrdfetch, not rrdupdate. This way you can choose the feature without changing the data. In summary, I find the idea of rrdtool very good, the implementation tries to cover as much as possible (particularly with time formats!!) and be very precise. These are excellent points, that's why I'm trying hard to use it. However there are some aspects that look too much intrusive to the user. Remember, the data is the most important asset in there! I'm trying to use rrdtool to keep the data I want in the format I want to be able to do a more heavy-weight analysis than just gif pictures, which I cannot do with mrtg (or there is too much overhead). That's why I feel my freedom is being somewhat limited. If there are good reasons for this please speak up! -- 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
