On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 03:51:02PM +0100, José Maria Costa Pereira wrote: > > Hi, everybody! ... I was wondering, is it possible to create an INTEGER > datasource; or, if not, an INTEGER round robin archive (RRA)?? > > I want to store/graph values that are always INTEGER (number of calls). It > doesn't make much sense to have a graph with NON INTEGER values for > something that represents the "number of calls". Of course I can always use > MRTG without RRD format.
So if you have 10 calls in one 5 minute period, and 11 calls in the next 5 minute period, and 11 calls in the next 5 minutes, what is the *INTEGER* that represents the average number of calls in the 15 minute period? Answer: there isn't one. So even if you are sampling and storing only integers *and* storing them only on exact time intervals - because if you're not storing them on exact time intervals, you should be interpolating to possibly non-integer results - if you need to report period of more than a single time interval, or graph any period where a pixel represents more than a single time interval, then you need to deal with non-integers. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWJD? "JWRTFM!" - Scott Dorsey (kludge) "JWG" - Eddie Aikau -- 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
